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Pinocchio

Walt Disney Company · back to the book

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Aladdin

Karen Kreider, Walt Disney Company

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The Three Little Pigs

Elizabeth Ross

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages

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The Gingerbread Man

Jim Aylesworth · 40 pages

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

Talking AnimalsFairy Tale RetellingChildren'sIllustrated Book
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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 Mitten

Jan Brett · 32 pages

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

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Thumbelina

Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages

Thumbelina is one of the most charming and childlike tales of the great Danish story-teller, Hans Christian Andersen. It is presented in a brief retelling, with pictures by Gustaf Tenggren, the Swedish-American artist whose pictures are loved by children everywhere.

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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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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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Instructions

Neil Gaiman · 40 pages

This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.

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Interrupting Chicken

David Ezra Stein · 40 pages

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

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Doctor De Soto

William Steig · 32 pages

Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter · 58 pages

A frog fishing from his lily pad boat doesn't catch any fish, but one catches him - what will happen next?

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Seven Blind Mice

Ed Young · 40 pages

In this retelling of the Indian fable, seven blind mice discover different parts of an elephant and argue about its appearance.

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I Want My Hat Back

Jon Klassen · 40 pages

The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despair, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear's memory and renews his search with a vengeance. A picture-book morality play about dishone

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Where's My Mom?

Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler · 32 pages

Monkey Puzzle tells the tale of a young monkey who has lost his mummy. He searches through the jungle for her with the help of a friendly butterfly. The tale unfolds in rhythmical rhyming verse with bright coloured, fun illustrations.

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sWhimsical
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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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Llama Llama Mad at Mama

Anna Dewdney · 32 pages

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sWhimsical
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Bill Martin Jr. · 32 pages

Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.

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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Dr. Seuss · 47 pages

As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young peasant (the same as in Bartholomew and the Oobleck—a Caldecott Honor Award-winner), and his unjust treatment at the hands of King Derwin. While The 500 Hats is one of Dr. Seuss's earliest and lesser known works, it is nevertheless totally Seussian and addresses subjects that we kno

Children'sIllustrated BookFairy Tale RetellingLighthearted
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Piggies

Audrey Wood, Don Wood · 32 pages

Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.

Illustrated BookTalking AnimalsChildren'sWhimsical
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A to Z

Sandra Boynton

A variety of humorous animal characters introduce the letters of the alphabet.

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What Do People Do All Day?

Richard Scarry · 64 pages

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