The "Town Musicians of Bremen" (German: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) is a popular German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819.  It tells the story of four aging domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they decide to run away and become town musicians in the city of Bremen. 

Amazon has it as an ebook - https://www.amazon.com/Bremen-Town-Musicians-Brothers-Grimm-ebook/dp/B00B7NHZ20 and The Book Depository has a physical copy if that is more your thing - https://www.bookdepository.com/Bremen-Town-Musicians-Brothers-Grimm/9780735843844

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The White Cat (French: La Chatte Blanche) is a French literary fairytale written by Madame d'Aulnoy and published in 1698. The "Animal Bride" story type was made popular by Mme. d'Aulnoy's literary opus and pointed that the tale type maintained a clear and vigorous tradition in the folklore of all of Europe", with more than 300 versions collected.

The tale of The White Cat was a product of the salon culture of the late 17th and early 18th century France, a period of prolific literary production by female writers.

Amazon has a great ebook that contains The White Cat story here - https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Stories-Classic-European-Childrens-ebook/dp/B00AQJ07QM/

The Book Depository has a collection of all of Madame d'Aulnoy's tales in physical form here - https://www.bookdepository.com/Fairy-Tales-Madame-DAulnoy-Countess-DAulnoy/9781410208316

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"How Six Made Their Way in the World" is a Grimms' fairy tale about an ex-soldier and his five companions with special abilities who through their feats obtain all of the king's wealth. The Grimms' main version is the one of many collected from storyteller Dorothea Viehmann, localized in Zwehren a version close to it known in Paderborn is also discussed in their notes.

"How Six Men got on in the World" (Hunt, 1884), "How Six Travelled through the World" (Wehnert, 1853) are among other English-translated titles given for this tale. A lesser known translation was given as Fritz and his Friends.

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"The Ugly Duckling" (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was first published on 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. First Collection, with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen, Denmark to great critical acclaim. The tale has been adapted to various media including opera, musical, and animated film. The tale is an original story by Andersen.

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"Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant), or "Little Briar Rose", also titled in English as "The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods", is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, to be awakened by a handsome prince at the end of  them. The good fairy, realizing that the princess would be frightened if  alone when she awakens, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace asleep, to awaken when the princess does.

The earliest known version of the story is found in the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344. The tale was first published by Giambattista Basile in his collection of tales titled The Pentamerone (published posthumously in 1634). Basile's version was later adapted and published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. The version that was later collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the literary tale published by Perrault

Amazon has a ebook version of the Brothers Grimm version, whereas The Book Depository has a beautifully illustrated version if physical copies are more your thing.

Links:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Sleeping-Beauty-Brothers-Grimm/9780735840874

https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Beauty-aka-Briar-Rose-ebook/dp/B008BVMU4O

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceforest

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"Master Cat or the Booted Cat", commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is an Italian and later European literary fairy tale about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a  princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

Amazon has this in a few formats, and as usual The Book Depository has you covered for physical copies.

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This version of  the familiar fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker" dates from 1918. In the story, a poor cobbler gets help making shoes  from an unlikely source: two fairies or brownies (house spirits).

"The Elves and The Shoemaker" is a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from three young helpful elves.

Amazon has a lovely leather-bound version of all of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, if you want a Kindle version try this one.  If you prefer the Book Depository, they have a complete set of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales too.

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