Written by legendary authors Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, retellings of twenty of Shakespeare's best known plays, using the playwright's own words when possible.

Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sisters do not recognize her.

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."

Animated versions of classic childhood tales, including El Patito Feo (The Ugly Duckling); Los Cisnes Salvajes (The Wild Swans); El perro De la Cresta Blanca (The Dog of the White Comb); and El Traje Nuevo del Emperador (The Emperor's New Clothes).

Retellings of eleven of Aesop's fables.

An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

"From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never...

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the Old English epic poem Beowulf, tells his own side of the story. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.