Famous Folktales

3. Three pig brothers build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks to keep out a hungry wolf.
4. Travelers trick a selfish village into sharing food by pretending to make soup from stones.
6. A trickster from Native American stories who loves to play jokes but often ends up in trouble.
9. A poor boy finds a magic lamp with a genie who grants him wishes that change his life.
12. A steel-driving man who raced a machine to prove human strength and courage.
14. A hardworking hen bakes bread by herself because no one else helps her.
17. A cookie who jumps out of the oven and runs away shouting, “You can’t catch me!”
18. A magical man who spins straw into gold and forces a girl to guess his name to save her child.
19. A gigantic lumberjack from American tall tales who worked with his huge blue ox named Babe.
20. A vain emperor is fooled by tailors who claim to make him invisible clothes.

1. A clever spider from African folktales who loves to trick others and teach lessons about being smart.
2. A wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy but must learn to tell the truth.
5. A greedy couple keeps wishing for more and more until they lose everything.
7. Two siblings lost in the woods find a candy house owned by a wicked witch.
8. A curious boy who trades his family’s cow for magic beans and climbs a beanstalk to a castle in the clouds.
10. A shepherd boy who lies about a wolf attacking his sheep until no one believes him when it’s true.
11. A slow but steady tortoise wins a race against an overconfident hare who takes a nap.
13. A kind girl who brings food to her grandmother and meets a sneaky wolf in the forest.
15. A brave girl from China who disguises herself as a man to take her father’s place in the army.
16. A tiny girl born from a flower who travels through nature to find where she belongs.