Read The Little Mermaid

A gilded statue and a swallow give away his gold leaf and his sapphire eyes to the poor, and both are thrown out.

Scheherazade keeps herself alive with Sinbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba, a story a night.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Down the rabbit hole with the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts; nonsense with logic underneath.

The boy who would not grow up, Neverland and Captain Hook.

Dorothy, the yellow brick road and a wizard who is a fraud; the American fairy tale.

A wooden puppet who lies, the Fox and the Cat and the belly of the shark; darker than Disney.

Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.