Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

A fresh look at eight classic stories, told with bold language and vibrant pictures.

Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!

"Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast" --

Not wishing to marry any of her royal suitors, Princess Smartypants devises difficult tasks at which they all fail, until the multitalented Prince Swashbuckle appears.

"A sensitive story of a little boy'slove for his toy rabbit and how the rabbit wanted to be real. The Skin Horse tells the rabbit, 'When a child loves you for a long, long time not just to play with, but REALLY loves you become Real.'"

The classic tale of Cinderella is told by her stepmother, who was not really so wicked after all.

During story time the Gingerbread man comes alive, so the children make haste and quickly give chase but he runs too fast and is helped from a storybook cast.

An abridgement of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds. Includes historical notes about Hans Christian Anderson and the original fairy tale.