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The black geese
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Alison Lurie |
When her little brother is taken away by the black geese belonging to the terrible witch, Baba Yaga, Elena searches for him in the great dark forest. |
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Mother Goose
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Tomie dePaola |
An illustrated collection of 204 Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including well-known ones such as "Little Boy Blue" and less familiar ones such as "Charlie Warlie and his cow." |
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Fairy tales of Eastern Europe
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Neil Philip |
A collection of fairy tales from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, including "God's Cockerel" and "Cinder Jack." |
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The Tailor of Gloucester
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Beatrix Potter,H.Y. Xiao PhD,H y Xiao Phd |
When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him. |
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The buried moon
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Joseph Jacobs,Susan Jeffers |
The Moon is held prisoner in the bog by the Evil Ones until the townspeople miss her light and go to search for her. |
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Lazy Jack, a picture book, by Barry Wilkinson
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Joseph Jacobs |
Retells the adventures of the lazy boy who could never do anything right but became rich in spite of himself. |
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Jack and the beanstalk
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Joseph Jacobs |
Joseph Jacobs' version of the tale in which a boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he must use his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune. |
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The girl who spun gold
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Virginia Hamilton |
Quashiba, a peasant girl, is about to be made queen because the king believes that she can spin and weave golden things. A tiny creature comes to save her under the condition that she has three chanc… |
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Märchen von Rosenblättchen
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Clemens Brentano |
A lover of roses with most of her kingdon made into a rose garden, Princess Rosalina makes a pact with an old enchantress to obtain the most beautiful rosebush of all. |
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The Enchanted Tapestry
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Robert D. San Souci |
With the aid of a sorceress, young Li Ju seeks his mother's precious handmade tapestry held by the fairies of Sun Mountain. |
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Italian peepshow
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Eleanor Farjeon |
Eleven stories of imagination and fantasy including one about the prince who won a princess by growing bigger orange and lemon trees than she. |
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Princess of the Midnight Ball
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Jessica Day George |
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the … |
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Alone in the Wild Forest
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Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A young orphan's life is changed when the angel he meets in the forest gives him an amulet that will fulfill every wish. |
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Alice Nizzy Nazzy
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Tony Johnston,Tomie dePaola |
When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back, in a Southwestern version of the Baba Yag… |
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Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales
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Gwyn Jones |
Twenty-four tales from the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland. |
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Fortune's folly
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Deva Fagan |
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by pretending to tell fortunes, but when she is tricked into telling the fortune of a prince, she is faced… |
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Beauty and the Beast
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Jan Brett |
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. |
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The King of Ireland's Son
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Brendan Behan |
Sent to find the source of the heavenly music heard throughout the kingdom, the youngest son of the King of Ireland finds a beautiful maiden held captive by a fierce giant. |
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Princess Sonora and the long sleep
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Gail Carson Levine |
In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times smarter than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the spindle. |
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Three billy goats Gruff
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Patricia McKissack |
An easy-to-read retelling of the fairy tale about three clever goats and a nasty troll. |
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