Akron Public Library

Jack and his mother were very poor. One day Jack takes their only cow and sells it for handful of beans. His mother is very angry, and tells Jack to throw the beans out the window! By the next morning the magic beans have grown into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a large castle at the top. In the castle is a goose that lays golden eggs. Jack takes the goose, and sets off back down the beanstalk. A giant follows Jack. When...

A little girl named Goldilocks takes a walk in woods and finds the house of the three bears. She eats their breakfast porridge, breaks a chair, and sleeps in baby bear's bed. When the three bears come home, they find Goldilocks still asleep in the bed and they frighten her away.

Three clever billy goats outwit a mean troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way to a grassy pasture.

Retells the classic fairy tale in which a princess sleeps for a hundred years and is reawakened by a prince, and includes a picture dictionary and other resources for readers.