The Snow Queen

This is the Fairy Tale story of The Snow Queen. It has been adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s version and is brought to you by Stories to Grow by.  The Wizard’s Mirror ONCE THERE WAS AN EVIL WIZARD who made a mirror with his dark magic.  If anything good or beautiful was put in front

The Red Shoes

This nightmarish story follows a little girl named Karen, who is given a pair of gorgeous red shoes by her adoptive mother. She likes them so much, she wears them to church, but is told she must only wear black shoes to church. Next Sunday, however, Karen cannot resist, and puts them on again. At

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

In this rather sad but sweet tale, a boy receives 25 tin soldiers for his birthday, and arranges them on a table. One soldier stands on a single leg, for there was not enough metal left to make him whole. A paper ballerina, who stands nearby, also stands on one leg, and the soldier falls

The Nightingale

This touching tale stars the Emperor of China, who discovers that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. A kitchen maid leads the court into a nearby forest, where a nightingale agrees to join them. He remains the king’s favourite at court – until the king is

The Little Match Girl

This highly poignant and thought-provoking story follows a little girl, who is trying to sell matches on the street on a freezing cold New Year’s Eve. She begins to light the matches for warmth instead, and sees wonderful visions in the glow of their flames, including a vision of her beloved late grandmother. She then

The Princess and the Pea

In this funny and memorable tale, a prince is having terrible difficulty finding a wife. He is highly sceptical about the women he meets who claim to be princesses, for they are often too fat, too skinny or not sufficiently beautiful, or they have bad table manners. One night, a woman drenched through from the

Thumbelina

In this magical tale, a peasant’s wife plants a barleycorn given to her by a beggar woman, and a tiny girl named Thumbelina emerges from its flower. One fateful night, Thumbelina is asleep in her walnut-shell cradle when she is carried off by a toad, who plans to marry her to her son. Thumbelina escapes,

The Ugly Duckling

When a mother duck’s eggs hatch, one of the baby birds looks rather different from the rest, and is rejected and bullied by the other animals on the farm. He wanders unhappily for a while from place to place, and gazes wistfully one day at a flock of swans, whom he cannot join because he

Little Ida’s Flowers

This sweet, short tale follows Ida, who is sad that her flowers are drooping. A student tells her that the flowers are tired because they have been dancing all night at a ball. Ida will come to see the truth of this that same night, when she wakes up to find flowers dancing in the

The Little Mermaid

In Hans Christian’s Andersen’s fairy tale, the little mermaid rescues a handsome Prince from a shipwreck during a storm. Captivated by the human world, she journeys to the sea witch and trades her tongue for a pair of human legs. She must make the handsome Prince fall in love with her and marry her in