Once upon a time (Simon Pulse)

"ONCE UPON A TIME"
IS TIMELESS

The Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years — until a prince awakens her with a kiss. So, to protect her, Aurore's loving parents forbid any task requiring a needle.

Unable to sew or embroider like most little princesses, Aurore instead explores the castle grounds and beyond,...

A retelling of "The Little Mermaid" in which Pearl, a teenaged girl who was discovered in the sea as a small child by a fisherman and treated with scorn by the villagers ever since, falls in love with James, a prince, and faces powerful forces--human and magical--determined to tear them apart.

Presents a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood," in which Ruth, training to be a blacksmith since her brother was lost in the Crusades, begins to fall in love with William, a young noble whose dark secret makes Ruth's trips to her grandmother's forest home much more dangerous.

A handsome prince is lured into a battle between darkness and light in order to claim the fair Pamina as his bride. Inspired by Mozart's Magic flute.

Sixteen-year-old Rapunzel, abandoned by her mother and raised by the sorceress Melisande, agrees to help free Melisande's daughter, Rue--whom Rapunzel did not know existed--from a wizard's curse, but bitter feelings rise between the girls and threaten to leave Rue cursed forever.

A retelling of the tale about a girl whose father remarries and the effects that her stepmother has on the family.

Puts a new spin on the familiar story of Belle, a kind-hearted young woman who saves her father by agreeing to go live in the castle of a Beast.

Nadya, a kitchen girl in a Russian tavern, has no memory of her past since nearly drowning in the Iset River during the Revolution, until two young men arrive with news that her grandmother summoned them to find her.

After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar's mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool Empress Marie and convince Nadya, a mischievous and quick-witted kitchen girl at a Russian tavern, to accompany them to France. Nadya resembles the famous Anastasia, but can't remember her life before the revolution....