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Zeus bestows upon Pandora the gifts of the gods and sends her to earth where Epimetheus falls in love with her. On their wedding day Zeus gives the couple a beautiful box which must never be opened. When Pandora, unable to contain her curiosity, cannot resist opening the forbidden box, she unleashes suffering into the world.

'Hold your nose!'

'Look upside down!'

'Spin around!'

Mei Ling has hiccups and no matter what her classmates suggest to get rid of them, they keep coming back. How can she find a way to stop the hiccups?

Lima is really hungry. In the kitchen, there's plenty of food to choose from: a hairy coconut, some shiny samosas and a plateful of sticky sweets…but nothing looks quite as enticing as the shiny red hot chili pepper her mother told her not to eat. One big bite later and Lima's mouth is bursting with flames and exploding with fireworks.

'Jack couldn't help feeling envious of Jill, he wished he'd climbed a beanstalk instead of a hill...'

Whilst Jack lies in bed recovering from his fall down the hill, Jill sets out to save her family from ruin. When she sells their cow for a handful of magic beans, her adventures into the land of the giant begin, but will the risk pay off or will her family go hungry?

A girl at school is bullying Ellie but she keeps it to herself, writing about what happens in her diary. Things go from bad to worse until one day Ellie is caught stealing money from her mum and she bursts into tears and spills all to her parents. Read Ellie's diary to see how she dealt with the bullying and how she put a stop to it.

'Stop Goldilocks, go back home, woods aren't safe when you're all alone!'
What will become of Goldilocks when she ignores the friendly mouse's warnings?

In a village in the Arabian Desert, a band of knife-wielding thieves want revenge. In a secret cave, Ali Baba has stumbled across their stolen treasure and now the bloodthirsty bandits are on his trail. How will the poor woodcutter outwit forty thieves all on his own? Ali Baba is going to need luck on his side; either that, or the help of a very clever friend...