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A traditional tale is a story that has been told and re-told for many years, and consequently,
becomes a story that almost everyone knows. Traditional tales are also referred to as fairy stories or
fairy tales.
Stories such as Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk are all
traditional stories. 
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Little Red Riding Hood

Charles Perrault

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was
ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This
good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that
everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your
grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter."

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but
he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was
going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him,
"I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."

"Does she live far off?" said the wolf

"Oh I say," answered Little Red Riding Hood; "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house
in the village."

"Well," said the wolf, "and I'll go and see her too. I'll go this way and go you that, and we shall see
who will be there first."

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way,
entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little
flowers. It was not long before the wolf arrived at the old woman's house. He knocked at the door:
tap, tap.

"Who's there?"

"Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; "who has
brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother."

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out, "Pull the bobbin,
and the latch will go up."

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman
and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten. He then shut the door
and got into the grandmother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time
afterwards and knocked at the door: tap, tap.

"Who's there?"

Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her
grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, "It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood,
who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you."

The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will
go up."
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Little Red Riding Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.

The wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, "Put the cake and the
little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me."

Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her
grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, "Grandmother, what big arms you have!"

"All the better to hug you with, my dear."

"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"

"All the better to run with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"All the better to hear with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

"All the better to see with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"

"All the better to eat you up with."

And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.

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ARIEL
Once upon a time, there was a little mermaid named Ariel. She was the youngest daughter of the
king of the sea, King Triton, but she was always dreaming about what life would be like on land.
Ariel loved everything to do with the world above. She had a huge collection of things that had
fallen off of the human’s boats into the ocean and trinkets that had gone down with sinking ships.
She didn’t know what any of them were called, so she invented names for everything: gizmos,
gadgets, whoozits and whatzits, and thingamabobs, of course. But she wasn’t content, no matter
how many things she had, and she often swam to the surface to see if she could see any humans up
close.
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One night, she swam to the surface and saw a grand ship. Standing at the helm was a handsome
young man, a prince. Ariel fell in love with the prince as soon as she saw him.
Suddenly, the waves became rough and the ship was tossed up and down until it finally tipped over,
throwing everyone on board into the ocean. Ariel saw the prince was sinking in the water,
unconscious, and she dove down to rescue him. She brought him up to the surface and swam to the
shore, but he would not wake up.
Ariel gently lay the prince down on the beach and sang to him as the waves washed up around him.
She stayed with him until the sun came up, singing a pure and beautiful melody.
Finally, the prince fluttered his eyes open. The little mermaid knew she couldn’t be seen by a
human, so she quickly dove back into the water.
A man came down the beach looking for the prince, asking him what had happened. The prince
couldn’t remember. Someone had saved his life, a young woman. He could still hear her beautiful
singing voice in his head, but had never seen her face. The man was sure the prince had either been
dreaming or had hurt his head, so he hurried him back to the castle to see a doctor.
Ariel was more determined than ever to return to the surface and find the prince that she was so in
love with. Her best friend, a fish named Flounder, didn’t think it was a good idea – he was scared
that something bad might happen. When she asked her father, King Triton, he forbade her from ever
going to the surface again.
She was determined to find a way to walk on land with the humans, to trade her fins for legs and
feet. The crab Sebastian tried to convince her that life was much better under the sea, but she
wouldn’t listen. Ariel went to see the witch, Ursula, to see if she could help.
Ursula agreed to help Ariel, but there was a catch. Thewitch would turn the little mermaid into a
human, but Ariel would not be able to talk or sing – she would have no voice at all! Plus, Ariel
would have to get the prince to kiss her before three days were up. If not, her soul would belong to
Ursula, and she would be a prisoner forever in her garden of poor unfortunate souls.
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Despite the terrible conditions of the agreement, Ariel signed her name and Ursula made her sing so
that she could use a magic spell to steal her voice. She cast a spell on Ariel to turn her into a human.

Suddenly, Ariel couldn’t breathe. Mermaids can breathe under water, but humans can’t. She tried to
swim to the surface to breathe, but swimming was much harder with legs instead of fins. Finally,
she made it to the surface, caught her breath, and started swimming to the shore.
When she finally reached the beach, Ariel was so tired that she immediately fell asleep.
The little mermaid was abruptly woken up by a dog licking her face on the beach just as the sun
was coming up. It was the prince’s dog, and he quickly ran over to get the dog to stopped. Ariel was
overjoyed to see him, but couldn’t say anything because the witch had taken her voice.
The prince saw that the poor girl had no clothes and couldn’t talk, so he gave her his coat and took
her back to the castle.
Over the next two days at the castle, the prince taught Ariel the proper way to use a fork (not a
dinglehopper, as she used to call it) and taught her to dance. She was getting worried that he
wouldn’t kiss her in time, and her soul would one of Ursula’s prisoners forever.
That evening, the prince took Ariel out for a romantic ride in his rowboat. Her friends from the
ocean knew they had to help get the prince to kiss her, so they sang a song to try to make him kiss
the girl. The prince couldn’t understand what they were singing, of course, but he felt the urge to
kiss Ariel. He leaned in, but just before he could kiss her, two of Ursula’s pet eels arrived and
tipped the boat over. The moment was ruined, and time was almost up.
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When Ariel came down for breakfast the next morning, on her third day, a mysterious stranger had
the prince’s full attention. She was a beautiful woman with long, black hair. Ariel had no idea who
it could be until the woman started to sing. It was Ariel’s own voice coming out of that woman!
Ariel knew that it was really the witch Ursula disguised as a beautiful woman, but she was helpless
and couldn’t say anything.
The prince was smitten. He was sure he had finally found the mysterious woman who had saved
him from the ocean that horrible night and sang to him on the beach until he woke up. He
immediately asked the witch to marry him – the wedding was to be at sunset that very day.

Fortunately, Sebastian the crab had sneaked into the kitchen and saw what was happening. He
quickly ran back to the ocean to warn King Triton that his daughter was in danger.
Just before sunset, the prince’s ship sailed out to sea for a beautiful ocean wedding – except with
the wrong bride! Ariel watched the ceremony begin, knowing that all hope was lost.
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Suddenly, just before the final vows and the kiss, King Triton shot up out of the ocean and revealed
the witch for who she really was. He used his magic trident to turn Ursula back into her true, ugly
self and gave Ariel her voice back. The prince realized he had been tricked, and the woman he was
in love with had been right in front of him the whole time.
The little mermaid finally got her kiss, even though the spell was already broken. She and the
prince got married that very moment, and lived happily ever after.

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