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This story is called Snow White, written by the brothers Grimm, adapted by Lorena Romero, and read by Madeline Walton-Hadlock. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. Once upon a time, a king and queen welcomed to the world a beautiful daughter. The baby’s hair was black as obsidian, her cheeks pink as roses, and her skin white as snow. Thus, they named her Snow White. Unfortunately, her mother the queen passed away shortly after giving birth to the child, so the young girl never got to know her mother. Years later, the king remarried.

This story is called Hansel and Gretel, adapted from the Grimm Fairy Tale, and narrated by Ryan Aoto. This is a Librarycall recording. It was a dark and stormy night. Molly didn't mind. She was warm; she was happy; she was safe. Molly got into her bed and pulled her blanket up to her chin. “All set Sweet Pea?” her grandfather asked. “Yep,” she said. “Grandpa, will you read me a story?” “Oh,” Grandpa said. He started patting his pockets. “I don’t think I have my glasses. Eh, I don’t need them. I know lots of stories.

A certain man had a donkey, which had carried the corn sacks to the mill loyally for many a long year; but his strength was going, and he was growing more and more unfit for work. His master began to wonder if it was worth his while by keeping this old donkey much longer. The donkey, seeing that no good wind was blowing, ran away and set out on the road to Bremen. “There,” he thought, “I can surely be a town musician.” When he had walked some distance, he found a dog lying on the road, gasping like one who had run until he was tired.

This story is called Rumpelstiltskin by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This is a LibraryCall recording. By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. The miller’s house was close by, and the miller, you must know, had a very beautiful daughter. She was also very shrewd and clever; and the miller was so proud of her, that he one day told the king of the land, who used to come and hunt in the wood, that his daughter could spin gold out of straw.

This story is called Rapunzel, written by the Brothers Grimm, and read by Corrie Legge. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. Once upon a time there was a man and a woman who more than anything else wished to have a child. They lived in a small house, with a small window that looked out over a beautiful garden surrounded by high walls. But the garden was not their own – it belonged to a very powerful sorceress, who was feared throughout the land. One day, the woman stood at the window and looked out to admire the garden.

This story is called The Elves and the Shoemaker written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and read by Madeline Walton-Hadlock. This is a LibraryCall adaptation and recording. Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a small shoe shop in a village in Germany. His job was to make shoes out of leather and sell them to the villagers. Although the shoemaker was talented and hard-working, it took him many hours to make each pair of shoes, so he never had many shoes ready to sell. For this reason, he was quite poor.