Story Time - The Cobbler and The Faries

06/19/21 • 5 min

This version of the familiar fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker" dates from 1918. In the story, a poor cobbler gets help making shoes from an unlikely source: two fairies or brownies (house spirits).

"The Elves and The Shoemaker" is a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from three young helpful elves.

Amazon has a lovely leather-bound version of all of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, if you want a Kindle version try this one. If you prefer the Book Depository, they have a complete set of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales too.

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"The Elves and The Shoemaker" is a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from three young helpful elves.

"Our Story Begins" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Story Time - Beauty & the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in The Young American and Marine Tales. Its lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Children's Collection to produce the version most commonly retold and later by Andrew Lang in the Blue Fairy Book of his Fairy Book series in 1889.

Amazon has a variety of formats available, if you would like a physical book, the Book Depository is another option.

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Story Time - The Gingerbread Man

This is a variation of the well known story "The Gingerbread Man", with the usual characters of the cook, the cat, and the dog however this version has no fox, but a jumpy monkey called Jocko instead.

If you'd like to read this version of the story, you can find it here, alternatively Amazon and The Book Depository have plenty of options as well.

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