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Fairy Tales & Folklore Audiobooks
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Highlights presents All in a Day's Work retold by Ellen Wettersten. When a husband comes in from the fields tired and claiming his work is much harder than his wife's, the wife suggests they swap jobs the following day to give them an equal chance of experiencing the other's work.
Highlights presents Cinderella retold by Ellen Wettersten. Cinderella's stepmother is mean to Cinderella and makes her do all the hard work of the house. When Cinderella's stepsisters are invited to a ball at the palace, Cinderella is visited by her godmother, who turns Cinderella's rags into a gown and makes glass slippers appear. At the palace, the prince and Cinderella dance until midnight. Cinderella has to leave in a rush, but she never gives the prince her name. The prince must search the town to find her, using only a glass slipper she left behind.
Highlights presents Bigger Than Life written by Katherine Follett. This collection of tall tales emerged in the late 1800s, which was a time of great expansion in the United States. The tales are colorful exaggerations that helped groups of people come together, stay strong, enjoy life, and keep their hopes alive.
Once there was a husband and wife in India. The husband was a wise man, and he used his powers to change a mouse into a little girl. When the daughter was ready to marry, the wise man searched for the strongest thing to marry his daughter. In the end, the strongest was a mouse, and the wise man turned his daughter back into a mouse so the two could live happily ever after.
Long ago there was an emperor in Mongolia who banished all old people. One day there was a storm that carried the emperor's golden pitcher to a lake. Many people tried and failed to grab the pitcher. A woman's old father realized the pitcher's reflection shone in the water from a tree. The woman retrieved the pitcher, and the emperor realized old people are wise. He let them come back to his kingdom.
Hare is always boasting about being fast. He teases Tortoise for being slow. The other animals convince Tortoise to challenge Hare to a race. The animals help Tortoise train for the race. During the race, Hare is so confident that he stops for lunch and two naps. Tortoise wins the race.
A young princess struggles to keeps her promise to befriend an ugly frog who provided her help. In the process she learns that even those who seem very different can turn out to be good friends.
