What was your favorite fairytale when you were a kid, growing up?

Question

I've always loved the story of Rapunzel. But I had other favorites as well (i.e. Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and The Little Mermaid [Disney Version]). But my number one favorite was Rapunzel. Although, I often imagined I was the prince in each of the stories. But I would often imagine that I was Rapunzel's prince charming.

Anyways, I'm just reminiscing.

PS
I also liked The Frog Prince back then. (But I never dared to imagine myself as the Frog Prince, mind you.)

Answer 1

ME TOO! Rapunzel has always been my favorite, ever since I was tiny. My grandmother would patiently read it to me over and over again when ever I visited her. But, I was not the prince, I was Rapunzel.
Sort of moving off topic here, but you might want to see "Into the Woods" with Bernadette Peters. It is the Rapunzel story along with what happened After the "happily ever after."

Answer 2

I always loved Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( I think it is my favorite Disney movie of all time) growing up. I also grew up listening to a cassette of the story of the Tindebox by Hans Christian Anderson and so I love that one too. Though now looking at that story as an adult I wonder why anyone would think it is appropriate for children....

Answer 3

My favorite was Beauty and the Beast and the Twelve Dancing Princesses. With 12 princesses, there were always 12 magnificent dresses to look at in the picture books.

Answer 4

I liked Rumpelstiltskin and the Fog Pin (take off of Frog Prince). I also liked Hansel and Gretal and the 12 Dancing Princesses.

Answer 5

Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty

Answer 6

My favorite is a story that not too many are familiar with: Marushka and the Twelve Months:


There was once a girl named Marushka, whose mother and father had both died. She lived with her aunt and her cousin, a girl of her own age, named Holena. Their cottage sat by the edge of the forest at the foot of the mountain.

However, Marushka's aunt and cousin are grumpy, greedy and selfish. Even though she is forced to do all of the work, Marushka finds pleasure in each task. Holena complains to her mother that no one will want to marry her with Marushka around, and so they give Marushka three impossible tasks in an effort to rid themselves of her. In midwinter, they send Marushka out to find violets, strawberries and apples. Each time Marushka is given a task, she is told not to return to the cottage unless she has acquired the designated item.

On her first quest, Marushka travels through the forest, climbs up to the highest peak of the mountain, and discovers twelve men sitting around a burning fire. Three men are old, three are middle-aged, three are adolescents and three are still boys. She greets the men kindly, is respectful and asks permission to warm herself by the fire. The oldest of the twelve men explains that they are the twelve months of the year. January asks Marushka, "What do you seek?" When she explains her plight, March assists her, and Marushka returns to the cottage with beautiful violets. Although her surprised aunt and cousin are skeptical that she gathered the violets on the mountaintop, they send Marushka out on two more excursions to get strawberries and apples. Each time, the twelve months assist Marushka. Finally, greediness overcomes Holena and her mother, and they set off to the mountaintop to get more apples. They find the twelve months, but the women's rudeness results in January's creating a driving snowstorm. Holena and her mother are never seen or heard from again.

Marushka plants twelve apple seeds the following spring, and soon the beautiful trees bear bountiful sweet and juicy fruit. Marushka shares the harvest with her friends, neighbours, animals, birds and the twelve men.

Answer 7

Beauty and the Beast. I would watch it over and over and over. I love it because Bell isn't a stupid ditzy princess just looking for love, she's caring and kind and down to earth. I like the written version better than Disney though...

Answer 8

I did like the original (not Disney though that's good too) version of Beauty and the Beast.

Answer 9

My fashionable fairytale replaced into one I made up myself: That i ought to in some unspecified time sooner or later advance as a lot as be an fairly favourite singer and that i ought to discover my suitable Prince desirable that ought to marry me and love me always and ever! LOL! ok, i'm no longer complaining. My existence is fairly sturdy. :)

Answer 10

Some favs that come to mind are:
The Bremen Town Musicians
The Black Bull of Norroway
The Fisherman's Son