DeFelice, Cynthia C.
Summary: This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share. Using pen and gouache, the artist shows the "simple" characters in all their winning complexity. A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life they share everything, until the husband discovers a pot with magical powers buried under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION DeFliceBradman, Tony.
Summary: Little Red Riding Hood is worried about her Granny. Granny's recovered from her scare with the Big Bad Wolf, but she's lonely. Thankfully Little Red Riding Hood is on the case! She is ready to find her Granny some new hobbies and some new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRABrown-Wood, JaNay
Summary: "When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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Summary: The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHEOyeyemi, Helen
Summary: "The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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Summary: The Fairy Godmother is tired of helping everyone else live happily ever after. Nobody ever thanks her, and she's had enough! Find out if the fairy godmother can really quit her job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRAWedelich, Sam
Summary: Chicken Little is NOT afraid of anything. Well, okay, maybe a mysterious BONK to the head can produce panic. But only momentarily. It's not as though she meant to send the barnyard into a tailspin, thinking that the sky was falling. How ridiculous! But can she calm her feathered friends with facts and reason?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEDOyeyemi, Helen.
Summary: "From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: Cinderella's Prince Charming is just perfect, but his mother is a royal pain. She makes the ugly stepsisters look friendly! With a little makeover magic, Cinderella is ready to turn the Mean Queen into the Nice Queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRAWalls, Jasmine
Summary: Sarah is a school bully, but when she falls into the Snow White fairy tale she meets the Evil Queen, and decides that being evil is not really much fun--and sets out to convince the Queen that being nice has its rewards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn't want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of daring,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Akagaq, the youngest brother of three, is confident but forgetful. When he gets caught in a blizzard he makes a tent, but it is no match for the powerful wind. Trapped in the cold, Akagaq is helped by his brother Tiriaq. Tiriaq digs into a snowdrift for shelter, but the wind is still too strong and blows out their lamp. Akkiutaq, the eldest brother, arrives to save them, and brings them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIAMurrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURAlperin, Mara
Summary: Presents an adaptation of the tale in which a poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALPMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and they soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two--but King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: On their sixth trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the story of the Snow Queen, a troubled character who chose power over family and friendship, and Abby has free the children the Queen has under her spell--with the help of her new friend, a talking reindeer called Ralph, and a strange girl named Sharon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: An innocent child taken from her parents. A girl with magical hair confined to an isolated tower. But what does Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, actually know? Does she want to shield the princess from a cruel world-- or is there more to the story? -- adapted from jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
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Summary: In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYEasson, H.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jack is disgusted that he has to visit his great aunt Gretel (whom nobody in his family has ever seen, and who lives in a deadly forest with many skinny cats), horrified that there is no wi-fi, internet, or television in her dusty ancient cottage, and totally terrified when he realizes that she is a real, honest-to-goodness witch--fortunately she sends him packing after one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC EASMass, Wendy
Summary: "The girl's been sleeping for a hundred years. The boy's got issues of his own. There are two sides to every story..."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2006
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Summary: Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Outwit trolls with the Billy Goats Gruff, bake bread with the Little Red Hen, laugh at the pranks of Puss in Boots, and more, in these delightful animal adventures. Reports show that reading or being read to for ten minutes every day will significantly improve children's reading skills. This short story collection supports this - each story taking about ten minutes to read. Ideal for sharing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2020
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Summary: In this rhyming mash-up of many fairy tales, the reader is invited to follow Rosie down the many possible paths which may lead to a sleeping maiden, a hungry wolf, a girl locked in a tower, or a goose that lays golden eggs--but with some luck, and some smart choices, Rosie may save herself and her fellow fairy tale characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022