On a cold winter's night, a penniless young girl is left selling matches on the street.

“This is the one with the four suspects – all students of the watercolour artist who was found dead on the floor after teaching an art class.

She returns to the kitchen and stops in her tracks. “Now, where’d I put the pork?

Snow fell steadily in the wild woods of Siberia...

One day a tiny water snail appears in Abby's fish tank.

Abby's mother tells her to tidy her room.

A wicked enchantress imprisons a beautiful girl in a tower.

A princess makes a promise to a talking frog.

When a woodcutter boasts to a king that his daughter can spin gold from straw, she is forced to make a pact with a strange little man.

Beth wore her favorite pink smock. It had bottomless pockets perfect for carrying important things like handfuls of rubber bands, marbles the color of oceans, a red shoelace, a spoon, and two troops of plastic soldiers- one blue and one green.

Hoover had been the runt of his mother’s fourth litter. He was so small and weak at birth his parents worried he would not get enough to eat or would be smushed by the other babies as they slept, but Mama Muridae had faith in her little pup.

A beautiful but rude and conceited princess is taught a lesson.

A soldier risks his life to uncover the secret of twelve beautiful princesses.

A little girl has an encounter with a wolf while visiting her grandmother.

Nobody knew for sure how the slumbering dragon got there, but one thing everybody agreed on was that one day it would wake.