Little Red Riding Hood

Author: Charles Perrault
Ages: From 3 years old
Values: obedience, prudence
Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl who loved her mother and her grandmother. She helped them in all she could and as she was so good the day of her birthday her grandmother gave her a red cap. As he liked so much and went with her everywhere, soon everyone started calling her Little Red Riding Hood. 

One day the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood, who lived in the forest, became ill and Little Red Riding Hood's mother asked her to bring her a basket with a cake and a jar of butter. Little Red Riding Hood accepted. 

- Be very careful Little Red Riding Hood, and do not entertain in the forest. 
- Yes, mom! 

The girl walked quietly through the forest when the wolf saw her and approached her. 

- Where are you going to Little Red Riding Hood? 
- To my grandmother's house to carry this basket with a cake and butter. 
- I wanted to go see her too ... So, why do not we make a race? You go that way from here that I will go for this one. 
- Voucher! 

The wolf sent Little Red Riding Hood by the longest way and arrived before her at Granny's house. So he passed the little girl and knocked on the door. But what I did not know was that a hunter had seen it coming. 

- Who is it ?, said Granny 
- It's me, Little Red Riding Hood - said the wolf 
- how nice my daughter. Come in, come 

the wolf came, pounced on the grandmother and ate a bite. She put on her nightgown and got into bed to wait for Little Red Riding Hood to arrive. 

The little girl entertained herself in the forest, picking up hazelnuts and flowers, and for that reason, it took a little longer. When he arrived, he knocked on the door. 

- Who is it ? answered the wolf trying to refine his voice 
- is I, Little Red Riding Hood. I bring you a cake and a butter jar. 
- Good thing, my daughter. Come in, come 

When Riding Hood entered the grandmother he found different, though not quite know why. 

- Grandma, what big eyes you have! 
- Yes, they are better to see my daughter 
- Granny, what big ears you have! 
- Sure, they're better to hear ... 
- But Grandma, what big teeth you have! 
- They are for eat you better!! 

As soon as he said this the wolf threw himself on Little Red Riding Hood and ate it too. His stomach was so full that the wolf fell asleep. 

E Little Red Riding Hood then the hunter who had seen him enter the house Granny began to worry. It had been a long time since it was a wolf - God knew it could have happened! So he went into the house. When he got there and saw the wolf with his swollen belly he imagined what had happened, so he picked up his knife and opened the animal's gut to remove Little Red Riding Hood and his grandmother. 

"You must give this wolf a good punishment," thought the hunter. 

So she stuffed her gut and re-sewed it. When the wolf awoke from his siesta he was very thirsty and as he approached the river, was! Fell inside and drowned. 

Little Red Riding Hood saw her mother and grandmother again, and from then on she promised to always follow what her mother told her.

Juanito and the Magic Beans

Author: Joseph Jacobs
Ages: All ages
Values: cunning, save
Once upon a time there was an orphaned father named Juanito who lived with his mother in a cabin in the woods. Since they were very poor, the woman sent her son to the city to sell the only thing they had: a cow. 

Juanito took the cow and started. On the way, he met a man carrying a bag of beans. 

"Hello," the man said. I have some wonderful beans here. They are magical. If you want them, you change them for the cow. 

Juanito accepted the deal and returned home with the bean bag. But his mother did not like the treatment that the child had done. Very angry, she threw the beans through the window and began to cry. 

The next morning, Juanito discovered that the beans had sprouted and the plant had grown so high that it reached the clouds. 

Juanito climbed the plant and when he reached the top, a castle was found. There he saw an evil giant that had a hen that would put a golden egg every time he sent it to him. 

Juanito waited for the giant to fall asleep. When the giant fell asleep, the boy took the hen and, going down the plant, ran away with her. 

When Juanito's mother saw him with the hen she was very happy. The two together went to sell the golden eggs. For a while, they lived very happily without missing anything. 

But one day the hen grew old and she stopped putting golden eggs. Juanito had to climb the plant again to go to the castle of the giant in search of more treasures. 

Juanito hid and saw the giant count the gold coins he took out of a leather sack. When he fell asleep, Juanito took the coat and ran downstairs. With the gold of the sack, Juanito, and his mother were able to live in peace for a long time. 

But the gold of the sack was finished, so Juanito had to go back up the plant to the castle of the giant. When he reached the top, Juanito saw the giant keep a box in a drawer from which a gold coin came out every time the lid was lifted. 

When the giant left, Juanito took the box. As he left, the boy saw that the giant fell asleep while a harp played alone. Juanito waited and, when the giant fell asleep, he wanted to take the harp with his free hand. 

But the harp was delighted and when Juanito went to pick it up, started shouting: 

- Let me steal! I love, wake up, take me a stranger! 

Juanito and the Magic BeansThe giant woke with a start and, seeing what was happening, went behind Juanito, who had run out with the box. Juanito started down the floor. The giant decided to go after him. 

Juanito shouted for his mother from above: 

- Mom, take the ax and set it next to the plant. 

Juanito came down swiftly and quickly, and once down, cut the floor of an ax. 

The giant, who had heard it, rose again quickly. Luckily, it reached the clouds before the plant fell. 

Since then, Juanito and his mother have to deal with the only gold coin that comes out each day from the magic box. At least they have learned to manage better, even to save, just in case one day is not enough with the coin that touches.

Juan without fear

author: Grimm brothers
Ages: From 8 years
Values: cunning, fear
 There was once a father who had two sons. The oldest of them was smart and awake, while the little one was a bit awkward. But there was one thing in which the little one, whose name was John, outnumbered his brother: John was never afraid. But the boy was not proud of that and was always saying that he would like to learn to be afraid. 

One day the father was angry to have a son like John and told him to leave: 

- Take fifty florins and go travel the world. Learn something to earn a living with. 
- Sure father, you're right. I will learn to be afraid. 
- Do what you want, but that will not earn a living - replied the father 

On his way John came to an inn where the innkeeper, tired of hearing the desire I had to know what was the fear told him that Went to see the King, for he had announced that he would deliver all kinds of riches and the hand of his beautiful daughter to the young man without fear that he would be able to spend three nights in the enchanted castle. 

Juan appeared the next day before the King, whom he liked, and left him to choose three things to take to the castle. 

- Three things? Mmmm I know fire, a lathe and a carpenter bench with his blade. 

When the young man without fear came to the castle he lit a fire. At once there appeared large black cats looking at him fiercely. 

- Come near the fire if you are cold and stop wasting time meowing - Juan said 
- Why do not we play a game before cards? - Said one of the cats 

At that moment the animals took their sharp nails. 

- What longer nails! I'll cut them to you and quickly grabbed them by the neck and fastened them to the carpenter's bench. 

Deprived of their claws the pussies felt helpless and ran out of that place. 

When the dream began to take its toll on the young Juan without fear I suddenly saw a large bed. He lay down on it and the bed began to roam the castle. The boy was delighted to be able to walk all over it, but he got tired of so much turning and went to sleep by the fire, where he remained all night. 

The next day the King appeared there convinced that the young man would not have survived, and when he saw him there he was very surprised. 

On the second night, the boy was by the fire when men began to fall one after the other. Between them all, they brought nine tibias and two skulls with which they began to play the bowling. 

"One moment," Juan said, "you can not play. Those bowls are not round. Leave me the skulls for a moment. 

The young man formed them in his lathe and was playing all night with them at the bowling alley. 

The next morning the King appeared there again. 

"How was your night?" Do you already know what fear is? 
- I had a great time playing bowling, but that goes ... I wish I knew what fear is! 

During the third night, the young man was contemplating the fire, thinking about why he could not feel fear when six men appeared carrying a coffin. They laid him on the ground and the boy approached the deceased. 

- But he has a cold face! 

And he pulled it out and tried to warm it to the fire. Suddenly the dead man began to move and stood up very grumpily. 

- So, on top of that, I make you warm up, you get along with me? Well, now you will see! 

And John put him back into the coffin, and the six men took him away. 

- I do not know if I'll ever know what fear is. It seems I will not get it even if it happens here all my life - said the boy while he looked at the fire again. 

Then came an ogre with a long white beard. He challenged him to prove who of the two was stronger and Juan accepted. 

Juan without fearThe old man took an ax and struck it with an ax in a nearby anvil. But then the boy took the ax and repeated the feat by imprisoning the ogre's beard. 

The ogre accepted that he had lost and told him that he would give him great wealth if he let him go. He led him to one of the palace cellars and showed him three gold coffers. 

But at that moment twelve o'clock, all disappeared and the poor boy could only lie down to sleep by the fire. 

The King appeared by the castle the next morning and asked if he already knew what fear was. 

- No way! Many people have passed by here but no one has explained it to me yet. 
- Does not matter. You have fulfilled our covenant so you will marry my daughter. 

After a while, the princess began to get tired of constantly hearing her husband say she wanted to know what fear was. 

"I know what I'm going to do," said the princess. "She went to the river and picked up a bowl of cold water with much little fish. 

At night while her husband slept, he picked up the basin and threw it over him, awakening him with a fright. 

- Ahh, that scary! How scary my mother! Now I know what fear is!

Hansel and Gretel

Author: Grimm brothers
Ages: From 6 years old
Values: wit, appearances can be deceiving, fraternity, cooperation
There was once a woodcutter and his wife who lived in the woods in a humble cabin with their two sons, Hänsel and Gretel. They worked hard to feed them but they never earned enough. One day seeing that they were no longer able to feed them and the children were very hungry, the marriage sat at the table and bitterly had to make a decision. 

- We can not do anything else. We will leave them in the woods in the hope that someone with a good heart and a better situation than we can take care of them, said the mother. 

The children, who could not sleep with hunger, heard the whole conversation and began to cry as soon as they knew the end that awaited them. Hansel, the boy told his sister: 
- Do not worry. I'll find a way back home. Trust me. 

So the next day the four of them went into the woods, the children stayed by the fire, and soon fell asleep. When they woke up there was no trace of their parents and little Gretel began to cry. 

- Do not cry Hänsel. I've been leaving bits of bread all along the way. We just have to wait for the moon to come out and we can see the path that will take us home. 

But the Moon came out and there was no trace of the pieces of bread: they had been eaten by the pigeons. 

So the children walked lost through the forest until they were exhausted and could not take another step of their hunger. Just then, they found a dream house made of bread and covered with sponge cake and whose windows were made of sugar. They were so hungry, they hurried to eat on it. Suddenly, the door of the house opened and an old woman appeared, who looked kind. 

- Hello children, what are you doing here? Are you hungry? 

The poor children nodded. 

"Come on inside and I'll make you something very rich." 

The old woman fed them and offered them a bed to sleep on. But despite his kindness, there was something odd about her. 

Early in the morning, he picked up Hänsel and locked him in the barn while the poor man kept shouting. 

- Here you will stay until ! said engorges 

With very rudely woke his sister and told her to go to water to prepare something to eat, because his brother had put on weight as soon as possible to eat. Little Gretel realized then that she was not an old woman, but an evil witch. 

Days passed and the witch was impatient because she did not see Hänsel fattening, since when he told her to show him a finger to see if he had gained weight, he always deceived her with a bone by taking advantage of his blindness. 

So one day the witch got tired and decided not to wait any longer. 

- Gretel, prepare the oven that you will knead bread! He ordered the girl. 

The girl imagined something terrible and knew that as soon as the witch was lost, she would throw it into the oven. 

- I do not know how it 's done - said the girl 
- Silly girl! Remove from the middle! 

P Hansel and Gretelero when the witch stuck his head in the oven, the little gave a good push and closed the door. Then he ran to the stable to free his brother. 

The two little ones embraced and cried with joy when they saw that they had come out alive from that horrible situation. They were about to leave when it occurred to them to look around the house of the witch, and what a surprise! They found boxes filled with pearls and precious stones, so they filled their pockets and set out to go home. 

But when they came to the river and saw that there was neither a board nor a boat to cross them, they thought they would not make it. Luckily a gentle duck passed by and gently helped them across the river. 

On the other side of the bank, they continued to run until they saw the house of their parents in the distance, who were very happy when they saw them appear, and even more, when they saw what they had hidden in their pockets. At that moment they knew that they would live the rest of their happy days all four and without any hardship.

Granny

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Ages: From 6 years old
Values: love, acceptance
Granny is very old. Although Granny has many wrinkles and completely white hair, her eyes shine like stars, much more beautiful, for her expression is sweet and it gives pleasure to look at them. She also knows wonderful stories and has a beautiful dress of large flowers that creaks when she walks. 

Grandma knows a lot of stories because she lived much longer than Mom and Dad. He has a book of chants that he reads frequently. In the middle of the book is a rose, compressed and dry that she looks with a smile as tears come to her eyes. Why grandma will look like that withered rose? 

Every time Grandma's tears fall on the flower, the colors come alive, the rose swells and the whole room is impregnated with its aroma. Then the walls disappear and the forest rises. Then Grandma returns to be young and beautiful, with the same eyes as always. 

Next to her is a young man, vigorous and handsome. Smell the rose and she smiles. Now he has left and many thoughts and many figures are paraded through her mind. The man is no longer there, the rose lies in the book of songs and Abuelita is again the old woman who contemplates the withered rose in the book. 

Now Abuelita is dead. Sitting in her armchair, she was telling a long and wonderful story. 

"It's over," she said, "and I'm very tired; Let me have a dream 

She lay back, breathing softly, and fell asleep. But the silence grew deeper and deeper. His face reflected happiness and peace. It seemed that the sun bathed. Then they said she was dead. 

They put it in the coffin, wrapped in white linen. She was so beautiful, even with her eyes closed! All the wrinkles had disappeared and a smile was emerging in his mouth. Her hair was as white as silver and she was not afraid to look at it. She was always the grandmother, so good and so dear. They placed the book of songs under her head, as she had requested, with the rose between the pages. And so they buried Abuelita. 

GrannyIn the tomb they planted a rosebush that flourished splendidly and the nightingales came to sing there. The children could go at night without fear of getting a rose from the rose bush. One thinks very often in the grandmother and sees with its sweet eyes, eternally young. The eyes never die. Ours will see Abuelita, young and beautiful as she once was, when she kissed for the first time the rose, red and sweet, now lying in the tomb, turned to dust.

Donkey Skin

Author: Charles Perrault
Ages: From 6 years old
Values: love, perseverance, tenacity
Once upon a time there was a king fortunate and loved by his people who had a beautiful and virtuous wife as his wife. From her union had been born a girl with the same charms and virtues of her mother. 

The king was known to love the donkeys, especially one, whom he cared for as if he were one of the family. 

But the misfortune visited the king one day when his wife fell seriously ill. The queen, feeling his last hour approached, told her husband: 

Let me, before I die, you require one thing. If you want to remarry, I beg you to find a princess who is more beautiful and better than I am. 

After obtaining the king's promise, the queen closed her eyes forever. 

The king cried restlessly for days, and the pain accompanied him for a long time. But he finally realized that he had to remarry, for he had no son to inherit the kingdom. 

The king began to look for a wife, but if matching the beauty and virtues of his wife was difficult, even more so was finding a woman who had overcome them. 

One day, after meeting many princesses and nobles casaderas without any satisfaction, the king realized that his daughter, already of marriageable age, was still more beautiful and virtuous than his mother. In a sort of madness, the king decided that he would marry his daughter. 

The girl did not want such a thing, so she went to visit her fairy godmother, the fairy of the Lilacs, to help her. The fairy, who loved the Infanta, told him that she was already aware of what he was about to say to her, but that she did not worry: nothing could happen to her if she faithfully performed everything she told him. 

The fairy advised the princess to ask her father for all kinds of impossible things to keep him entertained. But his father was diligent and got everything his daughter asked, however, complicated it seemed. 

As nothing seemed to work, the fairy princess told: ' 

Your father will be a little stunned if you ask skin that ass who loves so passionately. Go, and do not stop telling him that you want that skin. 

The princess went to see her father and asked for the skin of that beautiful animal. To the surprise of the young woman, the king accepted. The poor ass was sacrificed and his skin was given to the princess. 

The fairy godmother went to see the princess and said 

-Cúbrete with this skin, salt palace, and part as far as the earth can take. I make sure your things go wherever you are. You just have to want it to make your things appear. 

The princess clothed herself with the donkey's hideous skin and left the palace without anyone recognizing her. 

When he knew his flight, the king sent the whole guard to search for it throughout the kingdom. Meanwhile, the princess came very far, to a farm from another neighboring kingdom where she came to serve. On the farm, he was the target of the crude jokes of the other servants because of the disgust that inspired his ass skin. 

One day, the princess decided to wash and put on her dresses to look prettier in her room, where no one could see her without her ass skin. No one who had seen her then would have recognized her. 

One day when Donkey Skin had donned his sun-colored dress, the king's son, who belonged to the farm where he worked, made a halt there to rest on his return from hunting. 

As he walked along the farm, the handsome young prince entered through an alley, the alley to which the donkey-skin window opened. The prince saw the girl, but not with her ass skin, but arranged in one of her best dresses. 

The prince was taken with her and hid so that the girl did not realize that he was there. The prince went to the farmhouse to ask who the girl was in that room. They told her that she was a servant whom they called Donkey Skin because of her filthy, filthy garment. 

The prince did not pay much attention to the references, and he left, still thinking of the girl, who fell in love without remedy to the point of falling ill with love. 

Skin of Donkey, knowing the feelings of the prince, who were well known throughout the kingdom, also fell in love with him. 

A Donkey skin prince had a hard time convincing her parents that she wanted to wife Donkey Skin because their parents did not seem good that the heir to marry a grimy maid. The prince agreed to marry whom they said for the sake of the kingdom. 

But when the prince died of love, his parents told him that they would do everything in his power to save him. 

The prince only asked to be commissioned to Piel de Ass that made him a cake. A servant came to carry the message. 

Ass skin went into his room and he managed to make the cake because it felt so much better. But as he made the dough he dropped a ring inside. 

The prince found the ring inside while eating the cake. Assuming that that ring could only belong to a young woman with a high crib, she agreed with her parents to marry the young woman to whom she fitted her finger. 

All the women of the kingdom tried it, but it was not worth it. It was the prince himself who approached the farm to inquire about Piel de Ass. She was dressed as a princess in her room when the prince arrived, so she hurried to put the ass skin on her. 

Everyone was surprised to see the thin, delicate hand that came out under the black and dirty hoof of his clothes, which he took off to discover as beautiful as it was when the ring snapped on his finger. 

The prince married the princess and reigned happily ever after.

Cinderella

Author: Charles Perrault
Ages: From 3 years old
Values: goodness


 Once upon a time there was a good man who had the misfortune to be widowed shortly after he had married. Years later he met a very bad and arrogant woman, but despite that, he succeeded in falling in love with him. 

Both married and went to live with their daughters. The woman had two daughters as arrogant as she, while the man had a single sweet daughter, good and beautiful like no other. From the beginning the two sisters and stepmother made the girl's life impossible. They were forced to wear old dirty clothes and do all the housework. The poor woman spent the day sweeping the floor, scrubbing the pots and making the beds, and if this was not enough, even when she rested on the ashes of the fireplace, they made fun of her. 

- Cinderella! Cinderella! Look at it, it's full of ashes again! 

But in spite of everything she never complained. 

One day he heard his sisters say that they were going to attend the dance given by the king's son. Cinderella really wanted to go, but she knew it was not meant for a girl like her. 

He ironed his sisters' clothes, helped them to dress and comb their hair, and dismissed them with sadness. When she was alone, she burst into tears of regret at not being able to go to the ball. Then, her fairy godmother appeared: 

- What happens Cinderella? Why do you cry like that? 

- Because I would like to go to the dance like my sisters, but I have no form. 

- Mmmm ... I think I can solve it, he said with a broad smile. 

Cinderella walked around the house in search of what her godmother asked for: a pumpkin, six mice, a rat and six lizards. With a stroke of his wand he turned them into a magnificent golden chariot drawn by six white steeds, a gentleman's coachman and six helpful footmen. 

- Ah yes, I forgot! Said the fairy godmother. 

And in a last stroke of wand he turned his rags into a magnificent dress of tissue of gold and silver and covered his feet with delicate crystal shoes. 

- Just one more thing, Cinderella. Remember that the spell will break at midnight, so you should come back sooner. 

When Cinderella arrived at the palace there was a great silence. Everyone admired her beauty as they wondered who this beautiful princess was. The prince soon took her out to dance, and from the moment she could contemplate her beauty, she could not help admiring it. 

The same thing happened to Cinderella, and she was so comfortable that she did not realize that it was twelve o'clock. He got up and ran out of the palace. The prince, worried, ran as well, though he could not reach her. Only one of her glass shoes, which the girl lost while running. 

CinderellaA few days later, a man from the palace with a crystal shoe came to Cinderella's house. The prince had ordered him to be tested by all the women of the kingdom until he found his owner. So the sisters-in-law tried it out, and though they made every effort, they could not get their foot in it. When it came Cinderella's turn they laughed, and even said that it was not necessary to prove it because in no way could she be the princess they were looking for. But Cinderella tried it and the shoe was perfect. 

So Cinderella and the prince were married and were very happy and the young woman returned to show her kindness by forgiving her stepsisters and marrying them with two gentlemen of the court.

Beauty and the Beast

author: Madame Leprince de Beaumont
Ages: From 6 years old
Values: kindness, love, sacrifice, not to judge by appearances
Once upon a time there was a wealthy merchant with three daughters. All three were very beautiful, but she was especially the youngest, whom everyone called from little Bella. Besides being pretty, she was also kind and so her proud sisters envied her and considered her stupid to spend the day playing the piano and surrounded by books. 

Suddenly the merchant lost everything he had and he had nothing left but a humble house in the country. He had to move there with his daughters and told them they had no choice but to learn how to till the land. The two older sisters refused from the outset while Bella faced the situation with determination: 

- Crying will not get anything, working together. I can be happy even if I am poor. 

So Bella was the one doing it all. He prepared the food, cleaned the house, cultivated the land and even found time to read. Her sisters, far from being grateful, insulted and mocked her. 

They had been living like this for a year when the merchant received a letter informing him that a ship that had just arrived had goods of his own. Hearing the news, the older daughters only thought that they might regain their former life and hastened to ask their father to bring them expensive clothes. Bella, on the other hand, only asked her father for some simple roses, since none of them grew there. 

But the merchant was barely able to recover his goods and returned as poor as before. When he did not have much to reach the house, a storm of air and terrible snow unleashed. He was dead with cold and hunger, and the howls of the wolves sounded closer and closer. Then he saw a distant light coming from a castle. 

When he reached the castle he went inside and found no one. However, the fire was on and the table overflowed with food. She was so hungry she could not help but try it. 

He felt so tired that he found a room and lay down on the bed. The next day he found clean clothes in his room and a cup of hot chocolate waiting for him. The man was sure that the castle had to be a good fairy. 

She was about to leave, and when she saw the roses in the garden, she remembered the promise she had made to Bella. He prepared to cut them when a terrible rumble sounded and a huge beast appeared before him. 

- This is how you pay my gratitude? 

- I am sorry! I just wanted ... they are for one of my daughters ... 

- Enough! I will forgive your life on the condition that one of your daughters offer me yours in return. Now go! 

The man came home exhausted and sorry because he knew it would be the last time he would see his three daughters again. 

He handed the roses to Bella and told them what had happened. Bella's sisters began to insult her, to call her capricious, and to tell her that she was to blame for everything. 

- I'll come, he said firmly 

- How can you say ?, asked Bella's father 

- I said for me to return to the castle and give your life to the beast. Please, Father. 

When Bella arrived at the castle she was amazed at its splendor. Even more so when he found written in a door "Bella's room" and found a piano and a library. But he sat up in his bed and wished sadly to know what his father was doing at that moment. Then he looked up and saw a mirror reflecting his house and his father coming to it. 

Bella began to think that the beast was not such and that she was actually a very kind being. 

That night he went down to dinner and although he was very nervous at first, he realized how humble and kind the beast was. 

"If there is anything you wish, you have only to ask," said the beast. 

Over time, Bella began to feel affection for the beast. He realized how much he endeavored to please her, and every day he discovered new virtues in him. But despite that, when every day the beast asked him to be his wife she always answered honestly: 

- Beauty and the BeastSorry. You are very good to me, but I do not think I can marry you. 

The Beast, however, was not angry but threw a long sigh and disappeared. 

One day Bella asked the beast to let her go to see her father since he had fallen ill. The beast put no impediment and only asked him to please come back soon if he did not want to find him dead with sadness. 

- I will not let you die beast. I promise I'll be back in eight days, Bella said. 

Bella was at her father's house for ten days. He was already thinking of returning when he dreamed of the beast lying in the garden of the half-dead castle. 

He returned immediately to the castle and did not see him anywhere. He remembered his dream and found it in the garden. The poor beast could not bear to be away from her. 

- Do not worry. I die because I've been able to see you once more. 

- Do not! You can not die! I will be your wife! 

Then a marvelous light illuminated the castle, the bells rang and fireworks exploded. Bella turned to the beast, and where was she? Instead, there was a handsome prince who smiled sweetly at him. 

- Thank you, honey. You have broken the spell. A fairy condemned me to live in this way until I found a young woman capable of loving me and marrying me and you have. 

The prince married Bella and they both lived happily together for many many years.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Author: Anonymous
Ages: From 8 years
Values: cunning , greed , courage


Long ago, in a Persian city, two very poor orphans lived. The eldest was named Kassim and the younger Ali Baba. 

Kassim, who was ambitious but not very hardworking, managed to marry a young woman of good standing. 

Ali Baba preferred to lead a less ambitious life and live from his work, so he became a lumberjack. His honesty and good deed made him soon gain the confidence of the people. Thanks to her effort and good judgment, Ali Baba managed to save some money, with which she bought a donkey to load firewood and thus not have to carry it. In this way, Ali Baba could serve more firewood and earn more money, and thus managed to get a total of three donkeys to help him in his work. 

The other woodcutters admired Ali Baba for his way of doing and inspiring confidence. So much so that one of them offered his daughter in marriage. 

One day, while Ali Baba cut wood in the forest with his three donkeys grazing around, he heard noise in the thicket. At first the woodcutter did not suspect anything. However, when he wanted to realize his donkeys were gone. Concerned with them, Ali Baba climbed a tree to try to see where the donkeys had gone. 

From the top of the tree Ali Babá could see a group of thugs approaching on horseback and standing at the foot of the tree where he was. Fortunately, they did not see him, because he remained hidden behind the branches. 
There the thugs left their horses and started their way on foot carrying heavy sacks. Ali Baba counted them as they went: there were a total of forty. 

From the tree, Ali Baba could see how a little later the forty thugs stopped in front of a rock. He also heard one say, in a loud and thundering voice: Open yourself, sesame! And the rock opened. 

The thugs came in, emptied their sacks, and left. Someone said, "Sesame, shut up!" And, saying this, the rock returned to its place. 

Ali Baba thought of entering the rock, but he worried that the thieves would return after something forgotten, so he decided to wait. After a long wait, the woodcutter approached the rock and said: Open yourself, Sesame! And the rock opened. Ali Baba found a large room illuminated by the light coming through the holes in his vault. He went in and the rock closed quietly. A little frightened, Ali Baba decided to explore the room. There he found rich merchandise: silk cloths, gold, silver, coins and precious stones. 

Alí Babá immediately realized that all this was the result of robbery and plunder, so he only took coins, leaving jewelry, precious metals and other goods, thus remaining at peace with his conscience. He filled three sacks with what he thought they could carry their donkeys and left. He opened the rock with the magic words and with the magic words closed it. 

Already, Ali Baba called his donkeys, loaded them with sacks full of coins and headed home. But when he arrived he found the door closed, so he decided to try the formula applied to the rock. And at the voice of "open, sesame" the door opened. To close it, he used the words "sesame, shut up," which also worked. 

When his wife saw him in the inner courtyard he asked how he had managed to get inside, since she had closed it inside and inside. He did not answer and invited him to help him unload the sacks. When she saw the coins she thought that her husband had allied herself with thieves and began to cry, disconsolate, thinking that the coins were the result of pillage. 

Ali Baba decided to tell the story to his wife, who was fascinated and convinced that the gold had not been stolen by her husband, but that destiny had put in its way. 

She wanted to measure the amount of gold before she was buried in the garden and went to her brother-in-law's house to ask for a measure. Kassim's wife left it, and when he recovered it, he saw a golden din under the measure. When he told his husband, he went to see Ali Baba, who offered him half of his coins. But Kassim wanted more, so Ali Baba told him the secret for fear that his brother denounced him or something worse. 

C Ali Baba and the Forty Thieveshen Kasim went to the rock and entered with several bags, the rock was closed. He filled the sacks, and when he was about to leave, he forgot the magic words. Soon he heard that the thieves were approaching and hid, but they caught him trying to escape, and they killed him, leaving his body there. 

Seeing that he did not return, Ali Baba went in search of his brother. When he found him dead he took him to bury him, and paid the gravedigger not to say anything. When the thieves returned and did not find Kasim's body they went to talk to the undertaker, who gave in to the threats and told him that Ali Baba was the one who had taken the body and promised to take the body of Kasim to one of the thieves. To tell him where to leave, the thief said that he would paint his door with ashes. 

One of Ali Baba's servants heard everything and painted all the doors of the village with ashes. As the plan of the thieves did not work, the chief appeared in the house of Alibaab asking for lodging as a false seller of oil with several jars, in each of which there was a thief hidden. Ali Baba accepted him at his house. 

Ali Baba's maid watched at night in the oil jars to light some lamps. But when he went out with the bucket to the first jar to catch oil, he met the thief, who struck him with the spoon, instantly asleep. And so he did with all the jars. 

The authorities seized the thieves and Ali Baba lived with his family happily ever after.

Aladdin's Lamp

Author: Anonymous
Ages: From 6 years old
Values: ingenuity, courage, help

Aladdin's Lamp Long ago, in a Chinese city, lived a young man of a poor family called Paladino, who was quite vague. His father wanted to teach him his trade, for he was a tailor, but Aladdin preferred to spend time with his friends in the streets. 

Being Aladdin a teenager his father died. Her mother did not know what to do to make the boy work and help at home because she alone could not get it out. 

One day Aladdin was approached by a man who claimed to be his uncle, brother of his late father. The man gave money to Aladdin to give it to his mother, but she distrusted the intentions of the stranger he had never heard of. 

The next day, the stranger went to dinner at the house of Aladdin and his mother. There, the man decided to propose something to Aladdin. 

- From tomorrow you will have a trade. Would you like to have your own costume shop? The man asked Aladdin. 
"Sure, uncle," said Paladino, seduced by the idea of ??having his own business. 
- Do not talk more. Tomorrow we'll go find a store for you, "said the uncle. And he left. 

This convinced Aladdin and his mother that this man was who he claimed to be. Why else would I offer him that opportunity? 

The next morning Aladdin went with his uncle and they walked together to a mountain, far from the city. It was then that he knew who this man really was: an evil sorcerer who needed Aladdin to achieve his purposes. 

The wizard said some magic words and the floor opened. Then he told the young Aladino: 
- Under this mountain is a treasure for you. Wear this ring, which will scare away your fears. Below you will find a slab: lift it while you say your name. Behind her, you will find a lot of gold, but you should not touch anything. Go ahead to a living room with a stone staircase. Go up and pick up the lamp hanging there saying your name and come back with it. On the way back you can take all the gold you want. 

Aladdin did as the magician asked. When he took the lamp he put it in his clothes so he could take some gold objects. 

To leave he asked his uncle for help, who asked him to give him the lamp first. But Aladdin had it in his clothes and he could not take it. The man insisted, but Aladdin could do nothing else. Tired of waiting, the wizard closed the earth, left Aladino inside and left. 

Aladdin wept disconsolately, for he thought he was going to die there. Without realizing it, he rubbed the lamp. In doing so, a genius left the ring wearing ... 

- I'm your slave said the genio.- Order what you wish and I will grant it. 

Aladdin could not believe what he saw. But, to check it, he asked to get out of there and the moment was outside. Aladdin returned home and hid the lamp, and did not tell anyone what had happened. 

A few days later Aladdin decided to sell the lamp to buy food. He started to clean it so he could get more money for her. Then the genius reappeared. 

"You are my master, what you wish will be granted," said the genius. 
"I want lots of food," Aladdin replied. 

At the moment his wishes were fulfilled to a great extent: dozens of gold plates full of food. When the mother saw him, she was frightened, so Aladdin had to tell her what was going on with the genie of the lamp. 

Thanks to the genius, Aladdin and his mother had food for several days and, selling the dishes where they had left the food, they got money to eat for many more weeks. 

One afternoon Aladdin heard about the beautiful daughter of the Sultan. Aladino invaded her curiosity and wanted to meet her, so she hid. When he saw her pass, the young man fell in love with her. Such was his infatuation that Aladdin asked his mother to go to the palace to ask for the princess's hand. 

The mother appeared in the palace carrying as a gift some of the jewels that Aladdin had taken from the mountain and several plates in which the genius had left the food. But no one noticed their gifts, only in their poor clothes, and they did not let it pass. 

After insisting for several days, they finally let her in, intrigued by what this woman intended. 

When Aladdin's mother asked for the princess's hand for her son the sultan laughed, accompanied by his inseparable vizier. 

Then the woman gave him the gifts he was carrying. 

"Give me three months to show you with a better gift that my son is worthy to marry your daughter," said Aladdin's mother. 

That was just the time that was missing for the wedding that the sultan had already agreed with the vizier's son and the princess. The sultan gave Aladdin's mother until then. 

The mother was happy to tell Aladdin the good news. However, he could not help warning his son that he suspected the Vizier because it did not look like clean wheat. 

Two months later, Aladdin's mother was surprised to see that the princess's wedding had gone ahead, and she ran to tell her son. 
Aladdin took the lamp and rubbed it. The genie appeared again and said: 

- You are my love, you want will be granted. 
"I want you to bring the princess and her husband to my house tonight when they retire to your room." Leave him paralyzed in the bathroom until dawn. Then you will return them to the palace. 

And so it happened. When the princess and her husband appeared at Aladdin's house they were very frightened. So Aladino approached the princess and said: 

- Do not be afraid, it will not happen anything. I will protect you. 

The next morning the genius returned them to the palace before anyone noticed his absence. She did not tell anyone anything, but her father was worried about her because he did not see her happy. He told his father, the vizier, but he forbade him to tell that story so they would not take him for a fool. 

That night the same thing happened again. The Sultan, seeing that his daughter remained the same, demanded that I tell him what was happening. She told him. His father infuriated and called the Vizier and his son. 

The vizier's son, who was frightened and did not want to spend another paralyzed night, begged his father to free him from that marriage. But his father refused. 

However, when the Vizier confirmed that everything was true, the Sultan annulled his daughter's marriage so as not to have problems. 

Upon learning of the news, Aladdin waited for the term that the Sultan had promised him, and sent his mother to grant him the princess's hand. 

The sultan, who had already forgotten Aladdin, did not know what to do to keep his promise. So he followed the Vizier's advice and asked Aladdin for something impossible: a wedding gift that included forty golden dishes with gems that should be carried by forty slaves accompanied by forty slaves. 

Aladdin was not afraid and went to get his magic lamp and asked the genius what the sultan claimed. When everything was ready everyone went out to the palace. 

The Sultan was amazed, but the Vizier suspected something. Meanwhile, the Sultan had the wedding arranged for the night. 

Aladdin rubbed the lamp again to ask the genius to dress him and his mother appropriately for the ceremony, leaving the whole world astonished by its elegance and the richness of its robes. 

After the wedding, Aladdin told the sultan that he would build a new palace for himself and his wife. That said, Aladdin went to his house to rub the lamp, and asked the genius the most luxurious palace ever seen. The new palace surprised everyone. But the Vizier, dead with envy, still suspected Aladdin. 

Aladdin's LampTo celebrate the wedding, Aladino distributed thousands of gold coins among the people of the city, which earned him the affection and respect of all. 

Meanwhile, in Africa, the sorcerer who had pretended to be Aladdin's uncle was investigating with his tricks what had become of the young man he wanted to deceive. Upon learning that Aladdin was alive, that he was rich and that he had married the Sultan's daughter, he went to look for him. He bought many lamps and spread the word that he changed the old lamps with new lamps. 

A servant of the princess, who heard him, advised her to change that of Aladdin, who looked old and worn. She knew nothing of the genius, so it seemed like a great idea and ordered the maid to make the change. Aladdin was traveling so he could not stop her. 

The sorcerer, by seizing the lamp, rubbed it and asked for genius. He left that he would move the whole palace with the princess to his city. 

The next morning the Sultan went to visit his daughter and found that she and the palace had disappeared. The sultan sent for Aladdin and sentenced him to death. 

The people of the city, upon learning that they would kill Aladdin, began to threaten the sultan by attacking and burning the palace if something happened to Aladdin. The sultan forgave him for fear but gave him a month to bring back his daughter. Otherwise, I would kill him without caring about people's threats. 

Aladdin was desperate because without the lamp he did not know what to do and did not know what had happened. Then he remembered his magic ring, rubbed it and the genius appeared. 

"I beg you to return my wife and the palace," said Aladdin. 
"What you ask of me is impossible," replied the genius. Everything is in the power of the sorcerer, who has the lamp, and she is more powerful than the ring. 
"Then take me to the palace," said Aladdin. 

Arriving in front of the palace, he waited for the sorcerer to leave and climbed through a window into his wife's room. She hugged him happily and told him that the witch wanted to marry her. Aladdin made a plan. 

"Darling, invite the witch to dinner and tell him that you are sorry, that you will marry him." Then, take advantage to poison him to sleep deeply. I will hide and solve all this. 

So it was. Aladdin recovered the lamp and returned with the princess thanks to the genius. Years later, Aladdin became the new sultan and reigned successfully for several decades.