Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.

"Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories"--

When the poor shoemaker and his wife discover the two naked little elves who have helped them become successful, they sew fine outfits for them.

Retells the story of a wicked fairy who casts a spell that dooms a princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.

A poor child who possesses nothing but the clothes on her back gives everything away to others who are suffering and receives areward from the heavens.

A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.