In a magical realm where everything comes to life and every living creature has a voice, a little girl was born from a petal. She was about the size of a finger on my hand. In the day she took care of the flowers and sang to them. At night, she slept in a walnut shell covered with a rose petal. Everybody called her Thumbelina.
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Once upon a time, there lived an old man and a woman. They had a little house and a little field by the house. They grew all kinds of things in the little field and were very happy with every harvest. That year they had already harvested most of it, but there was still a bed of beets left. Grandfather went to harvest in the evening and put the beets in the wheelbarrow one by one.
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Long ago, there was a seamstress who was more skilled than any other with needle and thread. She even boasted that she could beat the devil himself in tailoring skills.
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Once upon a time there was a woman who lived in a simple house with two daughters. Helen was her own and Mary was her stepdaughter. Helen had no work to do, she just lazed around all day and dreamed of a rich groom coming for her. But Mary was something else. She did all the work in the house, and she was good at everything.
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In a great kingdom, a queen was sitting at the window of a castle, embroidering. It was winter and snowflakes were flying outside. The winter landscape was beautiful, and the queen opened her window and looked out. For a moment she forgot that she was holding a needle and pricked her finger as she leaned out of the window.
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Once upon a time, there was a small, stubborn lamb in a large flock. It was always happy because it did what it wanted. It was small and cute, so any trouble was soon forgiven and no one was angry with it for a long time. Not even the mother sheep, the shepherd or the sheepdogs.
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Once upon a time, far away in the deep ocean where the water was very clear and blue, a king ruled the underwater world and the sea people. In the underwater world, beautiful trees and colorful flowers grew. There were also beautiful animals and all kinds of fish. The sea people lived in harmony.
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One day in early spring, a mama duck was impatiently walking around the eggs in her nest, waiting for all her ducklings to hatch. Suddenly, she heard the first “crunch”. One of the yellow ducklings was coming into the world. And soon, she heard the cluck a second and a third time. Only the fourth, the biggest of the eggs, still nothing. The mama duck circled around it, pecking at it with her beak to urge it on, but the duckling in the egg had yet to hatch.
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Once there was a poor farmer who had a bunch of children. He no longer had anyone in the village to ask to be the godfather of his last, newly born son. So he decided to sit down by the road and ask the first person who passed by to be his son’s godfather.
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Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived in a meadow by the forest. They were happy for a long time, and lacked nothing. Until one day the youngest pig came with bad news. He heard from a wise owl, who always kept track of everything, that a wolf was in the area.
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