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An Undone Fairy Tale

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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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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka · 54 pages

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the characters create their own stories, they also design the structure of the book itself. Classic fairy tales are deconstructed and rewritten with different but recognizable names, such as The Princess and the Bowling Ball, The Really Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hair and Chicken Lick

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The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

Vivian Vande Velde · 116 pages

A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold.

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The Three Pigs

David Wiesner · 40 pages

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

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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.

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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 Jolly Postman, or Other People's Letters

Allan Ahlberg · 34 pages

A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.

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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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The Gingerbread Girl

Lisa Campbell Ernst · 32 pages

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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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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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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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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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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 Tale RetellingChildren'sFunnyIllustrated Book
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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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Little Red Writing

Joan Holub · 36 pages

Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.

Fairy Tale RetellingChildren'sFunnyIllustrated Book
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Beware of the Storybook Wolves

Lauren Child · 32 pages

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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 Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages

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The Three Little Javelinas

Susan Lowell

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."

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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.

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The Worst Princess

Anna Kemp, Sara Ogilivie

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