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The Ugly Duckling , I loved the happy ending and as I got older the deeper message of the tale.

Sleeping Beauty. I loved the idea of the thorny prickly hedge growing up around the castle with everyone asleep inside.

Little Red Riding Hood for me

Snow White. My mother had a series of jigsaws that were scenes from the 1937 film. They were over 30 years old when I inherited them and there was the odd piece missing. I grew to love the beautifully animated characters.

My favourite story was The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen: the book was enormous in size, with thick creamy pages, beautiful illustrations & pop-up features. Mother read it to me once a week, and it felt very special, as she was a very busy midwife & hardly ever at home. I used to go to the hospital just to see her.

Hansel and Gretel - the gingerbread house when I was younger I could almost taste it!

Not an original choice, but it was always Cinderella. Who doesn't like the idea that one day they will be plucked from obscurity into a life of fame and glamour? And yet, now I'm older, I feel more pity for the ugly sisters. Funny how things change.

I loved Rapunzel. I used t stand in my window and pretend there was a prince below who had come to save me.

Peter Pan - I loved the idea of flying away to Neverland.

Does a tv show count?
The Singing Ringing Tree.
One of the most frightening things ever put on children’s tv.
A bizarre Eastern European fairy tale. Check it out.

Snow White as I loved all the dwarfs and their different personalities.

Loved the elves and the shoemaker and the princess and the pea Lovesd so many others - too many to mention but Grimms fairy tales were also a great favourite

I love The Little Match Girl. So sad but absolutely brilliant.

Cinderella because she comes through in the end

Rumplestiltskin
I loved the horror and the beauty.
Dark but also light.
The impossible task.

I loved the Three Little Pigs - a great tale of siblings looking after each other (in some versions at least!!) &, having always been terrified of wolves, I was reassured by the wolf meeting a sticky end!

Little red riding hood - loved the drama and wolves were my favourite animal ( had one as an imaginary friend - but that’s a whole new story )? I was gutted when I read a version with the children at my sons school and the opening page said if you’re going to grandmas house , don’t forget your mobile phone ! - sort of ruins it ?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - because I can still remember loving my Dad acting out the voices of the different characters when reading it to me

Cinderella, as it told me that dreams could come true.

Hansel and Gretel, just love the names!

Cinderella - the idea of the Prince and the glass slipper pandered to my idea of romance and of course started the shoe fettish I now have. Such a magical story with a great message and total wonder throughout.

Rapunzel. I dreamt of being a princess with long hair and a pointy hat !

Snow White so enchanting with her seven dwarfs, from rags to riches, the pumpkin carriage & golden slipper.
Kind optimistic & romantic the story always lifted my spirits ?

Peter Pan

I saw the original Snow White when I was a child and it scared and mesmerised me equally. Now I am 'old' I am in awe of the animation and watch it with my grandchildren who all love it as much as I do.