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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Little Mermaid
Michael Teitelbaum
Aladdin
Karen Kreider, Walt Disney Company
Beauty and the Beast
Max Eilenberg · 64 pages
A beautiful daughter dreams of meeting a handsome prince, but in order to save her father's life, she leaves home to live with a terrible, frightening beast. Though her patron is hideous, his disarming generosity slowly leads to a surprising connection.
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.
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.
Snow White
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 48 pages
Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
Many Moons
James Thurber · 47 pages
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
Cinderella
Ruth Sanderson · 32 pages
Although she is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, a kind-hearted young woman manages to attend the palace ball with the help of her fairy godmother.
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 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 True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages
Sleeping Beauty: a Little Golden Book
Michael Teitelbaum, Walt Disney Company
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
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
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 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 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 Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale · 90 pages
Princess Magnolia and her unicorn, Frimplepants, are on their way to have brunch with Princess Sneezewort, an occasion Frimplepants enjoys more than anything in the world. But just when he can smell the freshly baked bread and the heaping platters of sugar-dusted doughnuts, Princess Magnolia’s glitter-stone ring rings. The monster alarm! After a quick change in the secret cave, Princess Magnolia a
Just Ella
Margaret Peterson Haddix · 218 pages
You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after... Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and -- worst of all -- a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and certainly not charming. As soon-to-be princess Ella deals with her newfound status, she comes to realize she is not "your majesty" material. But br
The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer · 448 pages
Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Neil Gaiman · 70 pages
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
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.
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles [Boxed Set] (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1-4)
Patricia C. Wrede · 668 pages