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red riding hood

James Marshall, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 32 pages

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

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Cinderella Skeleton

Robert D. San Souci · 32 pages

This book is a rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main characters are skeletons. Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a ghoul can be. Poor Cinderella has no one to help her hang the cobwebs and arrange dead flowers -- certainly not her evil stepsisters. But the Halloween Ball is jus

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The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot

Margaret McNamara · 38 pages

Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of their mother's good advice and only Nklxwcyz builds a home safe enough to withstand the Big Bad Robot in this story reminiscent of "The Three Little Pigs."

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Previously

Allan Ahlberg · 32 pages

The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.

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Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion

Alex T. Smith · 32 pages

Little Red is on her way to visit Auntie Rosie with a basket of goodies and some spot medicine. Along the way she meets the Very Hungry Lion. The Lion is eager to gobble up Little Red. The Lion's plan doesn't work out the way he wanted. Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion is a fractured fairy tale version of Little Red Riding Hood. It's a classic fairy tale with a safari twist!

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Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella

Tony Johnston, James Warhola · 32 pages

This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.

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The Gingerbread Girl

Lisa Campbell Ernst · 32 pages

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The Emperor's New Clothes : An All-Star Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale

Starbright Foundation, Carrie Fisher, Penny Marshall, Dan Aykroyd, Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, Fran Drescher, Joan Rivers, Steven Spielberg, Norman Schwarzkopf, John Lithgow, Harrison Ford, Melissa Mathison, Angela Lansbury, Jason Alexander, Ruth Westheimer, Madonna, Calvin Klein, Liam Neeson, Nat · 96 pages

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Very Little Red Riding Hood

Teresa Heapy · 32 pages

Very Little Red Riding Hood's off to her Grandmama's for a sleepover, and she won't let anything stand in her way--not even a wolf. Little Red Riding Hood is a precocious toddler who fearlessly hugs the Big Bad Wolf, turning him into a confused ally during an exhausting afternoon of tea parties, dancing, and games of hide-and-seek at Grandma's house. This book is the story of Very Little Red Rid

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Falling For Rapunzel

Leah Wilcox

To rescue Rapunzel from her tower, a prince yells for her to throw down her hair; but being too far away to hear clearly, she tosses out various items from her room, including her maid.

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Cinder Edna

Ellen Jackson · 32 pages

Once upon a time there were two girls who lived next door to each other. Cinder Edna was forced to work for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, just as her neighbor, Cinderella, was. But Cinder Edna did things a bit differently. When Cinderella was done with her chores, she sat among the cinders to keep warm, thinking about her troubles. Edna, on the other hand, had learned a thing o

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Aladdin

Karen Kreider, Walt Disney Company

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Revolting Rhymes

Roald Dahl · 48 pages

Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

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Aladdin

Walt Disney Company · 40 pages

The Disney version of the tale of the poor orphan, Aladdin, who with the help of a genie, outwits the evil Jafar and wins the love of Princess Jasmine.

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Duffy and the Devil

Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach · 40 pages

The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.

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The Lion and the Mouse

Jerry Pinkney · 40 pages

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

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Beware of the Storybook Wolves

Lauren Child · 32 pages

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The Three Ninja Pigs

Corey Rosen Schwartz · 134 pages

Practice makes perfect in this kick-butt fractured fairy tale. Why does this wolf think he can come to town and blow all the houses down? These three little pigs just aren't going to take it from that bully anymore! The first starts aikido lessons---he'll make mincemeat out of that wolf! His brother learns a little jujitsu--he'll chop that guy to pieces! But when the wolf actually appears, i

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The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Eugene Trivizas, Helen Oxenbury, Eugenios Tribizas · 32 pages

A beautiful pop-up edition of the bestselling, award-winning picture book, it is complete with blown-down houses, blown-up explosions, and a fabulous dancing pig.

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The Frog Prince, Continued

Jon Scieszka · 32 pages

After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.

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Chicken Little

Steven Kellogg · 32 pages

Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages

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