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Pollito Tito
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video
3:58
updated!

Jack means well, but when he sells his family's only vache for une poignée de haricots, he's in deep trouble. Will those beans really make him plus riche que l’homme le plus riche du monde?

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
updated!

An updated version of Chicken Little, written in the present tense: Petit Poulet is un poulet tout à fait normal. Unfortunately he believes everything he reads on the internet...

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
updated!

A beautiful (but poignant) story of un oiseau and une baleine who tombent amoureux. But a whale can't fly, and a bird can't swim. Where will they live together?

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
3:12
updated!

When a rich chapelier tells people that his daughter can turn le foin into gold, the king makes him prove it (or be fed to the crocodiles!)

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
2:54
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Once there was a girl with une peau blanche comme la neige who was un tantinet more beautiful than the queen. A story of magic mirrors, some dwarfs, poisoned apples, and ScrabbleTM

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
2:31
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A vain empereur loves bragging about his own intelligence. But when a dishonest tailleur sells him some nouveaux habits, the emperor discovers who the real imbécile is.

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
2:08
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A story about a girl with très longs cheveux who lives in une grand tour. But it's also about different kinds of héros, and the things we do to live heureux jusqu’à la fin des temps.

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
3:10
updated!

Cinderella is intelligente et gentille, but she's also très malheureuse. Will she escape her selfish belles-sœurs and belle-mère and go to the bal du roi?

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
2:46
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Three hungry boucs meet a troll grossier et grincheux on their way to eat la haute herbe verte in the meadow. Will they outsmart him? Or will he eat them pour le petit-dejeuner?

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Pollito Tito
audio
video
5:12
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Hansel and Gretel get lost in la forêt and find une maison fait de chocolat et de bonbons. But then they also meet une méchante sorcière... Will Hansel become garçon rôti?

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