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Bee-bim Bop!

Linda Sue Park · 31 pages

A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.

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Puss in Boots

Charles Perrault

A cunning cat wins for his master a castle and the hand of a princess.

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Interstellar Cinderella

Deborah Underwood · 37 pages

Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stell

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The Three Little Javelinas

Susan Lowell

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."

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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

Bethan Woollvin · 32 pages

A striking new interpretation of the beloved Little Red Riding Hood story - with a dark and witty twist. Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on her way through the woods to visit her sick grandmother. The wolf is hungry, and Red Riding Hood looks tasty, so he hatches a dastardly plan, gobbles up Grandma and lies in wait. So far, so familiar. But this Little Red Riding Hood is not easily fooled, an

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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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Verity Fairy and Sleeping Beauty

Caroline Wakeman · 66 pages

This delightful ebook with beautiful, illustrated characters is a magical retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with a twist. In this captivating interpretation of a classic fairy tale, children can rediscover the much-loved story of Sleeping Beauty while exploring the kingdom of the fairies--a place where all of the classic fairy tales coexist and intertwine. In this retelling of Sl

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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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Little Red Riding Hood

Trina Schart Hyman, Johann Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 32 pages

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

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East Of The Sun & West Of The Moon

Mercer Mayer · 44 pages

The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.

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Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella

Jan Brett

Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sisters do not recognize her.

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The 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.

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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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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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Hansel and Gretel

Rika Lesser, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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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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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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The Three Bears

Paul Galdone · 32 pages

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in the little wee bear's bed.

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Kate and the Beanstalk

Mary Pope Osborne · 36 pages

In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.

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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

John Steptoe · 32 pages

A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe. Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro, who is proud of his two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but everyone—except Mufaro—k

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