Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... The Tale of Princess Aberdeen! In the Scottish Highlands, Princess Aberdeen meets a young man named Lachlan and they fall in love. The King, however, requires Lachlan to prove his affection by climbing The Glass Mountain without falling. But it is Princess Aberdeen who ends up falling into the mountain. How will she escape, and what evils lie within the mountain? This story is a retelling of Old Rinkrank.

When a little hen in a henhouse makes a little joke about her feathers, her eavesdropping neighbor thinks she was quite serious and tells the other hens. Then the story spreads all around the neighborhood until it becomes so outrageous that the little hen herself doesn't even recognize it!

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... The Lion & The Mouse! In the jungle one morning, a mouse comes across a sleeping lion. The mouse makes a solemn promise to the lion on the grounds that the lion let her go on its way in peace. How will the mouse fulfill her promise?

A donkey sets out to become the Bremen Town Musician and meets unexpected friends along the way.

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... The Twelve Hunters! When a princess learns her fiancé is betrothed to another, she and her ladies go to his court dressed as twelve hunters, in search of the truth. But when the King's lion tells him that the hunters are not really hunters but twelve maidens, he does not believe it and orders them to be tested. Will they succeed? What will become of the princess and her true love?

When a father promises to bring home a singing, springing lark for his youngest daughter, Caroline, he reluctantly makes a bargain with a lion in order to take the bird home to her. Now, Caroline must go to the lion, but when she does, she gets an unexpected surprise. The lion is in fact a handsome prince. A spell was put on him long ago, by day he is lion, by night he takes his true human form. But when the spell turns him from lion to dove, Caroline follows him across the ocean. With the help of the Night Wind, she breaks the spell. But finds him in the grasps of an enchanted princess who takes him away to her castle. Will she be able to find her true love and set him free once and for all?

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... The Jumping Contest! The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Frog argue over who can jump the highest. So they decide to hold a contest to figure it out. Who will take the win?

When a fisherman reels in a fish made of gold, it makes him an offer. Throw him back in the water and he will change the fisherman's cottage into a marvelous castle. But there is one catch, he can never reveal how it came to be. Will the fisherman be able to keep the secret?

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... Cedric the Snail! A little snail called Cedric goes on the adventure of his life in order to save his best friend from the Ground Beetles. Through the Desert of Stone and into the Mountains of Gravelle he must go, will he be able to rescue her?

A father bestows a gift upon each of his three sons. The first, a rooster. The second, a scythe. The third, a cat. He tells them to use them wisely to make their fortune. Will they manage to be as clever as their father hopes?

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... Sleeping Beauty! When a spell is put upon Sleeping Beauty by an evil sorceress, her parents try to keep her safe, but when she touches the spindle, she falls into a deep sleep and there is only one who can break the spell and wake her. Will he be able to do it?

When a peasant and his daughter, called Claire, are gifted land from the king, the begin to plant crops. When the dig up a solid gold mortar, the peasant wants to bring it as gift to the king. Despite Claire's advice to tell no one as the king will only ask for the pestle, the peasant takes it to the palace. But it turns out, Claire was right and the peasant finds himself in trouble, until the King meets his clever daughter ...

This week for highlight Thursday we're spotlight ... The Little Pirate Crab! When Crawford the Little Pirate Crab accidentally reveals the location of the Pirates’ treasure, they must sail hard and fast to beat the rabble-rousers of the sea, The Seagulls, to Turtle Island where it has been hidden for generations. According to Turtle legend the one true crab will help rid them of The Seagulls once and for all. Could it be Crawford?

Egor and his father search the old library for the potion and the spell, the only way to defeat the Feldrimel. Will they find it?

We're bringing back some of our favorites and making Thursday our Fairy Tale Highlight Day! Just before Jorinda and Joringel's wedding, they find themselves lost in the forest, near an enchanted castle. The old witch who lives in the castle enchants Joringel. She eventually lets him go but takes Jorinda prisoner in the form of a bird. How will he free his wife to be?

Tiny people, only a fraction of the size of a blade of grass live in a beautiful place deep in the woods. They had fled their previous home years before when ferocious spiders, call the Feldrimel, moved in. Now, they have been spotted scouting the Grassini's new home. Without a way to defeat them, the people of the grass think it is time to leave. But young Egor knows better. He found a way to defeat them but it lies in the treacherous land of the Feldrimel. Along with his father and the great warriors of the Grassini, Egor must venture into spider territory in order to vanquish them once and for all. Will he succeed?

When a Prince is born with the gift that every wish he makes must come true, it leads him on an adventure no one ever expected. A retelling of the class fairy tale, The Pink.

When a sheepdog decides to leave home and go his own way, he meets an unlikely friend.

In ancient Japan, the young Princess Hase is a celebrated poet and loved by all. But when her father must travel for work, Princess Hase is left with her stepmother, who wants to get rid of the girl by ordering a servant to abandon her far away in the mountains, but the servant has another plan. Find out what happens in this tale of family, love, and honor.

Two princes set off seeking adventure. When their father the King decides it's time for them to return home, he sends his youngest son to find them. Reunited, the princes turn toward home. On their way, they pass an enchanted castle where the two elder brothers are turned to stone. It is up to the youngest prince to save them all ... will he succeed? Perhaps with a little help from the Queen Bee ...