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This is the tale of an overconfident and foolhardy boy who tries everything he can think of to frighten himself. Nothing seems to scare him and the boy begins to doubt whether he is capable of experiencing fear at...

A collection of children's stories, voiced by the brilliant Brenda and Robin Markwell. Including Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Ugly Duckling, Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, The Tortoise and the Hare, Old Mother Hubbard, Puss in Boots, The Little Gingerbread Man, The Emperor's New Clothes, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Toad in a Hole, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Frog Prince and The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Aladdin is a young lad dwelling in ancient China; his parents are in despair, as he is a never-do-well and won't ever do anything. A sorcerer from the Maghreb persuades him to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a magic cave. But then, the socerer attempts to double-cross Aladdin, who resists only to find himself trapped in the cave. Luckily, he has kept the magical object and a world of adventures opens before him.

Charles and Mary Lamb took what most agree is a romance and the story of a king's jealousy, anger, mistaken sense of betrayal by his wife and the consequences of his retaliation upon his friends and family, and successfully transformed it into a children's version which ends happily when he learns how wrong he has been about almost everything.