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Year
Author/Source
Story Title
GEM!
Comments/Collection
Wiki page
E-book
Audiobook
More info
1621
Folk Tale - English
Tom Thumb
First fairy tale printed in English
1634
Fairy Tale - Italian
The Three Sisters
Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales (Giambattista Basile)
1697
Perrault, Charles
Bluebeard (aka Blue Beard)
1697
Perrault, Charles
Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper
1697
Perrault, Charles
Donkey-Skin (aka Donkeyskin)
1697
Perrault, Charles
Little Red Riding-Hood.
1697
Perrault, Charles
Little Thumbling (aka Little Thumb, or Thumbkin, or Hop O' My Thumb)
Similar to Tom Thumb (English fairy tale)
1697
Perrault, Charles
Master Cat, or Puss In Boots
1697
Perrault, Charles
Riquet with the Tuft (aka Ricky of the Tuft, or Cowlick Ricky)
1697
Perrault, Charles
Sleeping Beauty (aka The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)
1697
Perrault, Charles
The Fairies (aka The Fairy, or Diamonds and Toads)
1697
Perrault, Charles
The Ridiculous Wishes (aka The Three Ridiculous Wishes, or The Three Silly Wishes)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
Graciosa and Percinet (aka Graceful and Percinet, or Grace and Derek)
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
Princess Rosette
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Benevolent Frog (aka The Beneficient Frog, or The Frog and the Lion Fairy)
Orange Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Blue Bird (aka Bluecrest)
Green Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Fortunate One (aka Fortunée, or Felicia and the Pot of Pinks)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Little Good Mouse
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Princess Mayblossom
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Ram (aka The Royal Ram, or The Wonderful Sheep)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Story of Pretty Goldilocks (aka The Beauty with Golden Hair, or Dawn, the Golden Haired)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The White Deer (aka The White Doe or The Deer in the Woods, or The Hind in the Wood)
Orange Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Yellow Dwarf
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1698
d'Aulnoy, Madame
Green Serpent (aka Green Snake)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1698
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Golden Branch (aka The Golden Bough)
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1698
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The White Cat (aka Queen Cat)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1726
Swift, Jonathan
A Voyage to Lilliput
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1734
Folk Tale - English
Jack and the Beanstalk
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1756
de Beaumont, Madame Leprince
Beauty and the Beast
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1756
de Beaumont, Madame Leprince
Prince Darling
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1758
de Beaumont, Madame Leprince
Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1812
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
1812
Brothers Grimm
King Thrushbeard (King Grisly-Beard)
1812
Brothers Grimm
Little Brother and Little Sister (aka Brother and Sister)
1812
Brothers Grimm
Little Red Cap (aka Little Red Riding Hood)
1812
Brothers Grimm
Mother Holle (aka Mother Hulda or Old Mother Frost)
1812
Brothers Grimm
Rapunzel
1812
Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
1812
Brothers Grimm
Snow White (aka Snowdrop, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Brave Little Tailor (aka The Valiant Little Tailor or The Gallant Tailor)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs (aka The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Elves and the Shoemaker (aka The Elves)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince (aka The Frog King, or Iron Henry)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Golden Bird
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Golden Bird
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Golden Goose
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Juniper Tree
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Little Ash Girl (aka Ash-Maiden or Ashputtel)
Similar story to Cinderella
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Riddle
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Six Swans
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Star Money
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Table, The Ass and the Stick (aka The Magic Table, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Three Little Men in the Wood
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids (aka The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats)
1812
Brothers Grimm
The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was (aka The Boy Who Couldn't Shudder)
1814
Brothers Grimm
Briar Rose (aka Brier Rose, or Little Briar Rose)
Similar story to Sleeping Beauty
1814
Brothers Grimm
Foundling-Bird (aka Bird Found, or Fundevogel)
1814
Brothers Grimm
Frederick and Catherine (aka Fred and Kate)
1814
Brothers Grimm
Hans in Luck
1814
Brothers Grimm
How Six Men Got On in the World (aka Six Soldiers of Fortune)
1814
Brothers Grimm
Jorinde and Joringel (aka Jorinde and Joringel)
1814
Brothers Grimm
Sweetheart Roland
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Gold-Children
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Queen Bee
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Robber Bridegroom
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Seven Ravens
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Three Languages
1814
Brothers Grimm
The Twelve Huntsmen
1814
Brothers Grimm
The White Snake
1815
Brothers Grimm
Doctor Know-all
1815
Brothers Grimm
Sweet Porridge (aka The Magic Porridge Pot)
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Donkey (aka The Donkey's Tale)
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Goose Girl
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Goose-Girl at the Well
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Singing, Springing Lark (aka The Singing, Soaring Lark, or The Lady and the Lion, or Lily and the Lion)
Similar to Beauty and the Beast
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Twelve Dancing Princesses (aka The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces)
1815
Brothers Grimm
The Willow Wren and the Bear
1816
Brothers Grimm
The Water of Life
1817
Brothers Grimm
The Hut in the Forest (aka The Little House in the Wood)
1817
Brothers Grimm
The Pink
1817
Brothers Grimm
The Raven
1818
Brothers Grimm
Snow-White and Rose-Red
1819
Brothers Grimm
Clever Elsie
1819
Brothers Grimm
Clever Gretel
1819
Brothers Grimm
Faithful John (aka Trusty John, or John the True)
1819
Brothers Grimm
Old Sultan
1819
Brothers Grimm
The Bremen Town Musicians (aka The Traveling Musicians)
1819
Brothers Grimm
The Four Skillful Brothers (aka The Four Clever Brothers)
1819
Brothers Grimm
The Three Feathers
1819
Brothers Grimm
The Three Sons of Fortune (aka The Three Lucky Children)
1819
Brothers Grimm
Thumbling (aka Thumbling's Travels)
Similar story as Tom Thumb
1823
Brothers Grimm
The Blue Light
1823
Brothers Grimm
The King of the Gold Mountain (aka The King of the Golden Mountain)
1823
Folk Tale - European
Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little)
1834
Folk Tale - Russian
The Humpbacked Horse (aka The Enchanted Horse, or the Magic Horse)
Written by Pyotr Yershov
1835
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Princess and the Pea (aka The Princess and the Bean, or The Real Princess)
1835
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Tinderbox (aka The Tinder Box)
1835
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Traveling Companion
1835
Andersen, Hans Christian
Thumbelina (aka Thumbelina, or Thumbelisa)
1837
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Emperor's New Clothes
1837
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Little Mermaid (aka The Mermaid)
1837
Folk Tale - Polish
The Glass Mountain
Yellow Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1837
Southey, Robert
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
British folk tale
1838
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Galoshes of Fortune (aka The Goloshes of Fortune)
Long story (6 parts)
1838
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (aka The Brave Tin Soldier)
1838
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Wild Swans
1839
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Elf of the Rose (aka The Rose Elf)
1839
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Flying Trunk
1839
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Garden of Paradise
1841
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Swineherd (aka The Young Swineherd)
1841
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Ugly Duckling
1841
Folk Tale - Norwegian
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Norwegian Folk Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1841
Ruskin, John
The King of the Golden River
1842
Folk Tale - German
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (aka The Pied Piper)
Popularized in English by Robert Browning (poem)
1843
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Nightingale
1843
Brothers Grimm
Bearskin (The Bearskin Soldier)
1843
Brothers Grimm
Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle
1843
Brothers Grimm
The Hare and the Hedgehog
1843
Brothers Grimm
The Nixie of the Mill-Pond (aka The Nix of the Mill-Pond)
1844
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Elder-Tree Mother (aka Mother Elder, or The Elder Bush)
1844
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Fir-Tree
1844
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Snow Queen
Long story (7 parts)
1845
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Little Match Girl
1845
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (aka The Chimney Sweep)
1850
Brothers Grimm
Iron John (aka Iron Hans)
1850
Brothers Grimm
Maid Maleen
1851
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Golden Touch (King Midas)
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Miraculous Pitcher
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Three Golden Apples
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1855
Andersen, Hans Christian
Blockhead Hans (aka Clumsy Hans, or Silly Hans, or Hans Chodhopper, or Jack the Dullard)
1855
Folk Tale - Russian
The Feather of Finist the Falcon (aka Finn, the Keen Falcon)
Collected by Alexander Afanasyev
1855
Folk Tale - Russian
The Frog Princess (The Tsarevna Frog)
Collected by Alexander Afanasyev
1857
Brothers Grimm
Donkey Cabbages (aka The Salad)
1857
Brothers Grimm
Ferdinand the Faithful (aka Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful)
1857
Brothers Grimm
One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Boots of Buffalo Leather
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Crystal Ball
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Drummer
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Iron Stove
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat
Similar story as Puss-in-Boots
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Sea-Hare (aka The Princess Who Saw Everything)
1857
Brothers Grimm
The True Bride (aka The True Sweethearts)
1857
Brothers Grimm
The Turnip
1870
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Most Incredible Thing
1883
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1889
Folk Tale - Central Asian
The Bronze Ring
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - English
Dick Whittington and His Cat (aka The History of Whittington)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - English
Jack the Giant Killer (aka The History of Jack the Giant Killer)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - English
The Red Ettin (aka The Red Etin)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Estonian
The Gold-Spinners (aka The Water Lily)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Greek
The Terrible Head
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang). Retold story of Perseus & Medusa
1889
Folk Tale - Norwegian
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Norwegian
The Master Maid
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Norwegian
The Princess on the Glass Hill (aka The Maiden on the Glass Hill)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Norwegian
Why the Sea is Salt
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889
Folk Tale - Scottish
The Black Bull of Norroway
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1890
Folk Tale - English
The Three Little Pigs
English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs); Green Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)