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Period: 7000 BCE to 1 BCE
Ancient
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620 BCE
Aesop’s Fables
Ancient Greece
620 to 564 BCE William Caxton Fables are a type of short stories that give children an imagination to a specific moral and teaches a lesson to children and kids. Stories such as Fables have fully describe meaningful messages in their story. -
Period: 1 CE to 1500
Medieval
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850
Aladdin (1001 Arabian Nights)
Middle east (syria)
It was by Frenchman Antoine Galland, who attributed the tale to Syrian storyteller: Youhenna Diab.
Aladdin is a street rat who finds a lamp after being a child labor, which job is mainly about lamps then releases a genie. Throughout the story he meets a princess and goes on a quest, which is set in middle east (syria). A place the tale is set in. -
1200
Frog King
Germany
Brothers Grimm
The brothers grimm version is a more aggressive version: of the story the frog's spell was broken when the princess threw it against a wall in disgust. -
1300
Cinderella
China One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in French by Charles Perrault Cinderella is poorly treated by her greedy step- Mother and ugly step- sisters. Later on the story she becomes a beautiful princess and meets a prince. The meaning of story is that people who constantly bully people and humiliate them, will just end up embarrassing themselves ( as the bullies), whilst the people who have suffered from being bullied will rise up. -
Period: 1500 to
Modern
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Pocahontas
england
Captain John Smith
Pocahontas is most famous for saving the life of Captain John Smith. This story has been retold many times in many ways. Disney's Pocahontas was their first attempt to rewrite a historic event, instead of a fairy tale. As usual, the Disney version resembled the original just enough to confuse everyone. told by Captain John Smith himself. -
Little Red Riding Hood
Europe
Brothers Grimm
In the story meaning, the wolf gets cut open by a hunter with an axe. The little red riding hood and grandmother remain unharmed, The wolf is then filled with heavy stones. -
Beauty & The Beast
France
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
The beauty finds a beast who becomes a normal prince. The beauty (Belle) is a kind hearted and pure and well educated person. The Beast on the other hand is ugly and angry because people won’t accept him for who he is. Beauty ends up turning beast into a normal prince and everything becomes back to normal. -
Goldilocks and the three bears ( the story of the three bears)
England
Robert Southey
The original tale tells of a badly-behaved old woman, named Goldilocks. Who enters the forest home of three different sized bears while they are away. -
The Snow Queen
Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen The story centers on the struggle between good and evil as taken on by a little boy and girl, Gerda and Kay.
