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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMelisande
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.
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
Cinderella
Charles Perrault · 32 pages
The Little Mermaid
Michael Teitelbaum
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 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.
Snow White
Josephine Poole
A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs.
The Frog Prince (We Both Read - Level 1-2)
Jacob Grimm
The Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.
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 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.
Sleeping Beauty: a Little Golden Book
Michael Teitelbaum, Walt Disney Company
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.
The Sleeping Beauty
Trina Schart Hyman · 48 pages
Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.
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
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 Little Mermaid
Walt Disney Company, Stephanie Calmenson
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the heart of the prince she loves.
The Sleeping Beauty
Mercer Mayer · 48 pages
The author/artist has embellished this folktale of the princess who sleeps under an evil spell for 100 years with some details of his own.
The Red Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 330 pages
Twenty-nine fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, including The Golden Goose, The Story of Sigurd, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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.
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.
The Princess Test
Gail Carson Levine · 91 pages
In this humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea," Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to prove that she is a true princess and win the hand of Prince Nicholas.
The Worst Princess
Anna Kemp, Sara Ogilivie