Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" is translated as "La sirenetta" in Italian. The Italian term sirena covers both mermaids (part fish) and sirens (part bird).

"The Little Mermaid" concludes with a happy ending if you're a 19th century poet, as Andersen was. The vocabulary review focuses on verbs in the passato remoto.

In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

Kindness triumphs over looks in this tale of love. The Beast does, however, turn into a handsome Prince.
Practice some passato remoto verbs in the vocabulary review!

The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with some fun changes in Italian. The wicked queen's rhyme for the mirror is different, and when one of the dwarfs beholds Snow White, he exclaims, "Mamma mia."

The vocabulary review is dedicated to passato remoto verbs in the third person singular!

The vain queen's wickedness has its limits.

This is the first episode of the televisions series PsicoVip, created by Bruno Bozzetto and produced by RaiFiction. The series has won the “Best TV Series for Young Adults”. The main characters are the brothers SuperVip and MiniVip. Having a superhero brother causes MiniVip to have an inferiority complex, and so he goes to Mr. Doc, a psychologist who is only interested in his fees.

For once, Minivip wants to be the hero, and his elder brother goes along with that, but something doesn't go right. Even his psychologist, in whom the minihero wishes to confide, completely ignores him.

Minivip is on the train, when all of a sudden a woman enters his compartment and asks for help with her suitcase. It is clearly too heavy for our little minihero, and, as usual, his big brother comes and saves him from his misadventure.

Minivip, while out for a walk, thinks he could be dead after being hit by a lightening bolt, but the passersby, rather than lending him a hand, injure him further by insisting on testing his abilities.

Minivip, as usual, is at the psychologist's, where he recounts his strange dream about being shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, he meets a young woman who is very difficult to please, and who'd like to be rescued, but not by our Minivip...

In this episode Minivip dreams he's on a stage at a theater in front of many spectators, who are waiting to hear Rossini's William Tell. Minivip, with difficulty, is able to pound out a few notes. Then his brother arrives...

Minivip is on the couch telling his doctor about trying to save an ungrateful princess in the forest, when his brother swoops in to save the day.