Wise women [electronic resource] : folk and fairy tales from around the world / retold and edited by Suzanne I. Barchers ; illustrated by Leann Mullineaux.

Daughters : clever and courageous. The peasant's clever daughter (Germany and Italy)
The young head of the family (China)
The girl and the road agent (United States, Ozarks)
The tale of the Oki Islands (Japan)
The wild goose lake (China)
Stone patience and knife patience (Turkey)

Sisters : resourceful and steadfast
Clever Maria (Portugal)
Patience (India, Punjab)
The twelve brothers (Germany)
The princess and the giant (Scotland)
The snow queen (Denmark)
Fowler's fowl (Germany)
The water of life (Spain)
Hansel and Gretel (Germany)
Fortunée (France)
Molly Whuppie (Scotland)
The witch (Russia).

Maidens : clever and true
The robber bridegroom (Germany)
The little orphan girl (Chile)
Rachel found the gold (United States, Ozarks)
Maid Maleen (Germany)
East of the sun and west of the moon (Norway)
How Kate got a husband (United States, Ozarks)
Gifts of love (Korea)
Catherine and her destiny (Italy, Sicily)
The grateful prince (Germany)
Beauty and the beast (France)
Janet and Tam Lin (Scotland).

Attendants : ingenious and loyal
The learned servant girl (China)
The hand of glory (England)
The wounded lion (Spain)
The forty thieves (Arabia)
The master-maid (Norway)
Ubazakura (Japan).

Wives and mothers : devoted and cunning
Kumba and kambili (Africa)
Princess Sivatra (India)
The sprig of rosemary (Spain)
King Lindorm (Sweden)
Princess Maya (India)
The basil plant (Chile)
The lute player (Russia)
The legend of Tchi-Niu (China)
The tiger with the white ears (Korea)
What Candy Ashcraft done (United States, Ozarks)
The husband and wife (Norway)
The foolish husbands (Scotland)
Bolster (England)
How Toodie fixed old Grunt (United States, Ozarks)
The flying head (United States, Native American)
The twelve months (Greece)
The witches with the horns (Ireland)
One more child (India).

Mature women : bold and wise
The poppet caught a thief (United States, Ozarks)
The woman and the robber (United States, Ozarks)
Rachel (United States, northeast)
The little old woman who went to the North Wind (Norway)
Martha, the holy woman (France)
The woman in the moon (United States, Hawaii)
St. David's flood (England)
The white-haired old woman (United States, Native American)
The wise woman (Algeria).