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Hansel and Gretel - dark and hypnotic

Mine was snow White and the seven dwarfs because I wasn't wanted so I wanted to run away and find some dwarfs of my own.

I loved Goldilocks and The Three Bears

It has to be three little pigs, because I loved doing the huffing and puffing - still do sometimes lol

Rumplestiltskin as it was kind of scary and funny at the same time.

My favourite was The Ugly Duckling too, inspired by the wonderful sung version by Danny Kaye; I used to listen to Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites regularly every Saturday morning and it was a firm favourite. It had that little bit of pathos but the necessary happy ending!

Cinderella was my favourite. Would have loved to have worn a beautiful gown and gone to the ball!

My two sons loved the Three Billy Goats Gruff though. Always wanted it as their bedtime story, still think I could recite it word for word after nearly forty years.?

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson. And he looked and he saw and he said “I am a swan”. Can still hear a Tommy Steele singing in my head.

The Three Little Pigs - good triumphs over evil

Cinderella was always my favourite fairy tale. I just loved the idea of a beautiful, but poor, girl, that everybody (especially family) looked down on and treated badly, who then meets a very handsome prince who sweeps her off her feet and rescues her from that horrible life and turned everything in her life into something beautiful. I just always loved that idea and I still do. Plus, she was always very beautiful to look at, and so were her dresses!

Hansel and Gretel, for no other reasons than I liked the names. They sounded very mysterious!

It was not a fairy tale in the conventional sense but when I was quite young and confined to my bed with some childhood illness I read the whole of Gulliver's Travels in a very short time. I don't suppose I understood then all the social comment therein that I would see now with the benefit(?) of adulthood and experience but it was a rattling fantasy that caught my imagination and kept me reading on.

Hans Christian all the way.

I love Sleeping Beauty for its romanticism and happy ending. I find it super sweet that she fell in love with the prince not knowing she was engaged to him already from birth. The prince fell in love with her too thinking she was a pauper and was gonna leave a princess for her. Its so sweeet. Everyone lives happily ever after

Oh there are so many beautiful stories, some filled with love, some filled with terror .
A child’s imagination takes you to places you never dreamed of. To magical lands, far far away. To see beautiful princesses, to watch people at work, to be immersed in awe and wonder do these places and people really exist?
I loved Jack and the beanstalk. A story of poverty, of hope , of confusion , of magical mystery and of course, a happy ending. I also liked Tom Thumb and Thumbelina. The idea to a child that something quite, that small, could exist.

Not sure if it's classed as a Fairy Story but I loved the story of Midas and his golden touch. Then I loved Heidi!

the three little pigs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (had the Disney sticker book when I was ill as a child and dreamed of a life in a cottage in the countryside surrounded by animals - which is where I am now!)

Sleeping Beauty for me - so romantic!

Cinderella, my Dad bought me a Timex watch in a glass slipper for my birthday.

I loved the story of Beauty and the Beast. It had such a magical ending.

Cinderella, such a feel good, everything ends well story, and I still love it!

Hansel and Gretel the gingerbread house inspired me to build my own gingerbread house in my native Country Finland

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. My Mum took me and my younger sister to see it at the local cinema when I was about 5. I think she just wanted to see it herself! My sister hid her face when the wicked stepmother appeared on the screen - I can still see that horrible, crooked nose now, over 50 years later!

The Three Little Pigs was my favourite. Despite being young, I understood the message embedded within the story.