Schenkel, Katie
Summary: When Ava falls into the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, she has a chance to teach Briar Rose how important it is to be assertive and question things. Why wait around 100 years for a kiss from a stranger when you can take matters into your own hands?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2023
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Summary: "Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALRFransman, Karrie
Summary: People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAO'Neill, Katie
Summary: Rinn has grown up the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep... but Rinn's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC O'NESummary: Retells the story of a beautiful princess who promises an ugly frog, when her golden ball falls into a deep well, that he can live with her and become her playmate if he returns her ball, in a text with die-cut pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Neugebauer Publishing Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 GRIForsyth, Kate
Summary: After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORDiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DICWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2006