Arcadia Public Library

Description

Beginning-to-read book.Fairy tales and folklore

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

2) Cinderella at the ball

Author

Hillert, Margaret

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Aided by her fairy godmother, Cinderella goes to the ball. Includes reading activities.

3) The princess and the pea

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Series

Little Golden Book

Language

English

Formats

Description

Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations

An abridgement of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds. Includes historical notes about Hans Christian Anderson and the original fairy tale.

4) Puss in boots

Author

Perrault, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Description

A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

5) The wild swans

Author

Series

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Language

English

Formats

Description

Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.

6) The ugly duckling

Author

Story house book
My first fairy tales)

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations

Formats

Description

When Mother Ducks eggs hatch, one little duckling is clumsy and noisyand very ugly! And no matter how hard he tries to fit in, the other animals just laugh at him. Will the ugly duckling ever find a friend?

7) The little match girl

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

8) The Snow Queen

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Gerda and Kay are best friends, until Kay suddenly changes. Then he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and everyone thinks he is lost forever. But Gerda is determined to rescue him. Follow her, in this retelling of the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, as she sets out on her lonely and dangerous quest to the frozen north.

9) The elves and the shoemaker

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Series

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

10) Rapunzel

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Series

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, Newbery/Caldecott Collection

Description

Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations

A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress.

11) Rumpelstiltskin

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Series

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Description

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

12) The golden goose

Author

Hillert, Margaret

Publisher

Modern Curriculum Press

Pub. Date

c1978

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Children's Holiday: Halloween Read Alouds

Retells the tale of the golden goose that caused the king's unhappy daughter to laugh.

13) Magical tales from many lands

Author

Mayo, Margaret

Publisher

Dutton Children's Books

Pub. Date

c1993

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

Presents an international collection of tales, including "The Lemon Princess," "Seven Clever Brothers," and "Baba Yaga Bony-legs."

14) A world of fairy tales: ten celebrated artists reinvent the classic tales

Publisher

Book-of-the-Month Club

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

15) The nightingale

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.

16) The child's fairy tale book

Author

Chorao, Kay

Publisher

Dutton Children's Books

Pub. Date

c1990

Language

English

Description

A collection of five fairy tales including "Snow White and the seven dwarfs," "Muchie Lal," "Rapunzel," "The Ants That Pushed On The Sky," and "Cinderella."

17) Beauty and the Beast

Publisher

Holt

Pub. Date

c1983

Language

English

18) The land of the dragon king: and other Korean stories

Author

McClure, Gillian

Publisher

Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Collects nine Korean fairy tales, including "Clever Rabbit," "Why Pigs have Snouts," and "The Land of the Dragon."

19) The emperor's birthday suit

Author

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

c1996

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description