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Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales usually involves a moral at the end of the story and is particulary popular with children aged 2-7. In many fairy tales there is usually an evil figure and also "the good person". Fairy tales are thought to have originated throughout mainly the Victorian times, but also from other time periods of history.

Noteable authors include the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault.

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• Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella is about a girl whose mother has died and her kind and loving father, unfortunately, marries with another woman with two daughters; whom they become Cinderella's step-mother and step-sisters. The two sisters make Cinderella work really hard, doin all the cleaning and cooking, but suddenly a letter comes in the postbox saying that all the females in the household are invited to a ball where, hopefully, a Prince can choose his bride.