Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC: Twelve Dancing Princesses

"Every night the king locks his daughters in their room. Yet every morning their shoes are full of holes. Where do they go night after night, and what do they do to wear out their shoes? Many princes have tried to solve the mystery, but all have failed. Now it is a poor soldier's turn. Will he be able to discover the secret of the twelve dancing princesses?

A retelling of the tale of 12 princesses who dance secretly all night long and the gardener's boy who follows them and discovers where they dance

When the king's twelve daughters, under an evil spell, wear holes in their dancing slippers every night and grow pale and mysterious, Peter the gardener's boy discovers their secret and breaks the spell

A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered