Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant, Butterball, The Boy and the North Wind, The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain, The Sailors and the Troll, The Eating Competition, and The Troll with No Heart in His Body.

In this retelling of the Norwegian tale, a traveler from Finnmark and his polar bear help scare away the trolls that harass Halvor and his family every Christmas Eve.

In "The boy who cried wolf", a boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call. "Chicken Little" is the classic story of a chicken and her bird-brained friends who think the sky is falling. "Rapunzel" is the unique retelling of the classic story of the girl with the long golden hair. In "The three billy goats gruff",...