This week on River Reads we enter Season Five with Episode 40- They Change, featuring five tales from the collection Fairy Tales as retold by Bridget Hadaway, called The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Princess & the Pea, and The Swan Maiden.

This episode's fairy tales are: 

1. The Adventures of Pinocchio. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

2. The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

3. The Elves and the Shoemaker. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

4. The Princess & the Pea. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

5. The Swan Maiden. Fairy Tales. Hadaway, B. London: Octopus Books, 1974.

Remember to Tune in weekly for our Gender Blender segment, where we flip and play with traditional gender roles, reimagining classic fairy tales. Only revealing which tale is our Gender Blender tale at the end of each episode.