Fairy Tales and other Children's Classics

I have recently gotten into buying "the classics" for Sophia. We don't have many movies and I thought she should know about the princesses as she IS in prime princess age. I also started to remember the titles of classics I was read as a child. Well, it has been becoming increasingly more evident how horrible they are for kids. All the princesses are in fear of their lives from an evil witch wanting to kill them. The classics like Hansel and Gretel are about evil mothers wanting to abandon her kids in a forest only to have them "rescued" by an evil witch who wants to eat them. GRRR. I tried to read Lion King to the kids and had to change it up and have Mufasa "sleep" at the hands of the Wildebeasts. Sigh...