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Hide books by the same authorThe Twelve Dancing Princesses
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 32 pages
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and the poor soldier who follows them and discovers where they dance.
Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann · 100 pages
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and watches him change into a handsome prince.
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Ruth Sanderson · 32 pages
Retells the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.
Snow White
Josephine Poole
A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs.
Sleeping Beauty
Walt Disney Company · 32 pages
###German-language description: Vor langer, langer Zeit lebte in einem großen Schloss der gütige König Stefan mit seiner Frau, der Königin. Nach vielen Jahren des Wartens wurde ihnen endlich eine Tochter geboren, die sie Aurora nannten. Und da die Freude übergroß war, beschloss man ein Fest zu feiern, zu dem alle eingeladen waren. Alle bis auf eine, die böse Fee Malefiz. In ihrem Zorn belegte sie
The Little Mermaid
Michael Teitelbaum
Melisande
E. Nesbit · 43 pages
Cursed by an evil fairy at her christening, Princess Melisande grows up bald but finds herself facing another set of problems when her wish for golden hair is fulfilled.
The Light Princess
George MacDonald · 50 pages
Because she is not invited to the christening of the princess, the King's sister casts a spell depriving the child of gravity and the ability to weep tears.
The 13 Clocks
James Thurber · 124 pages
"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest
The Magic Nesting Doll
Jacqueline K. Ogburn · 32 pages
After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the Tsarvitch has been turned into living ice and she uses the magic nesting dolls her babushka had given her to try to break the curse.
The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales
Gail Carson Levine · 390 pages
Contains six tales about princesses, including the title work in which the son of a baker and a princess fall in love, but her father disapproves.
The Golden Book of Fairy Tales
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Segur · 160 pages
Aladdin
Karen Kreider, Walt Disney Company
The Little Mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo · 270 pages
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
The Blue Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 377 pages
The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions. Here in one attractive paperbound volume - with enlarged print - are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty and
Cinderella
Charles Perrault · 32 pages
The Paper Bag Princess
Robert Munsch · 32 pages
Story about not accepting failure or giving up on what you want. It's not about looks or power but tenacity and quick thinking. Hurray for you Princess of the Paper Bag. Very short, easy reading. I wanted to hear more about her.
Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont · 47 pages
With a kiss a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
Bony-Legs
Joanna Cole, Dirk Zimmer · 47 pages
When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.
The Salamander Spell
E.D. Baker · 249 pages
In this prequel to the "Tales of the Frog Princess", Grassina is a young princess-in-training. But as the younger sister to Princess Chartreuse, Grassina is not expected to do much beyond behave herself. When a terrible spell stops her mother from being the good Green Witch, and the Kingdom of Greater Greensward seems to teeter on the brink of terror, Grassina sets off on an errand in the swamp an
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.
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie · 266 pages