Anderson Tales

These were my favorite.  Though they still are not totally like the fairy tales I grew up with, I think that they were the best written. I also think they are the better ones for the kids, still I think some changes should be made, but that they are good for anyone to read. 

I read these online here is the link to them.
http://hca.gilead.org.il/

"Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that."

The Princess and the Pea
Once there was a prince who was looking for a princess, a real princess.  He looked all over for her and could not find one.  He returned home without a bride.  One dark and stormy night a princess came knocking on the door, but the weather had made a mess of her and she did not look like a princess.  They let her in anyway and had to run a test.  The old queen set a pea under 20 matresses and she had the Princess sleep on that, for only a princess with soft and delicate skin could feel a pea under all the mattresses.  In the morning she was asked how she was slept.  She told them that she wasn't able to sleep at all.  She didn't know what it was, but something was hard in her bed that left her black and blue all over her body.  They knew that she had to be a real princess, so the prince married her.  And what happened to the pea?  Well they put it in a museum. 

I also read these three Anderson fairy tales:
The Little Mermaid
Thumbelina
The Last Pearl