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Fairy Tales with New Twists - picture books
These books have new twists on traditional fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
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Search the Library Catalog for this title Ada, Alma Flor
With Love, Little Red Hen
A series of letters describe the actions of Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, the Three Pigs, Little Red Hen, and other storybook characters when Little Red Hen and her chicks become the target of the unsavory Wolf and his cousin, Fer O'Cious.
2001
Search the Library Catalog for this title Ahlberg, Allan
Previously
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.
2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Auch, Mary Jane
The Princess and the Pizza
An out-of-work princess applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert, but first she must pass several tests, including a cooking contest.
2002
Search the Library Catalog for this title Brett, Jan
The Three Snow Bears
Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.
2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Briant, Ed
Seven Stories
A girl in a seven-story apartment building has trouble sleeping because of her disruptive neighbors, who all seem to be characters from fairy tales.
2005
Search the Library Catalog for this title Browne, Anthony
Into the Forest
After his father seems to disappear, a boy takes a cake to his ill grandmother, traveling through the forest in a journey reminiscent of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
2004
Search the Library Catalog for this title Buehner, Caralyn
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
From the creators of "Snowmen at Night" comes an outrageously funny, sassy new take on a beloved fairy tale in which the frilly, jump-roping Goldilocks skis through the bears' house, reciting saucy rhymes as she goes.
2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Catalanotto, Peter
Ivan the Terrier
A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour. Ivan loves a good story. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun...or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he loves to be. In your lap.
2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Child, Lauren
Beware of the Storybook Wolves
When two wolves escape one night from his fairy tale book and threaten to eat him, Herb enlists the reluctant help of Cinderella's fairy godmother.
2001
Search the Library Catalog for this title Christelow, Eileen
Where's the Big Bad Wolf?
Detective Doggedly, a pair of cows, and a sheep who looks very familiar are all nearby each time three pigs get in trouble, but the big bad wolf is conspicuously absent.
33 p. 2002
Search the Library Catalog for this title Dealey, Erin
Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox
When Goldie Locks comes down with chicken pox, she is teased by her brother and is unable to visit with Bo Peep, Little Red, and other friends.
2002
Search the Library Catalog for this title Donaldson, Julia
Charlie Cook's Favorite Book
A circular tale in which each new book character is reading about the next, beginning and ending with Charlie Cook.
2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Edwards, Pamela Duncan
The Neat Line : Scribbling Through Mother Goose
A young scribble matures into a neat line, then wriggles into a book of nursery rhymes where he transforms himself into different objects to assist the characters he meets there.
2005
Search the Library Catalog for this title Ernst, Lisa Campbell.
The Gingerbread Girl
Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her. But she has a plan to escape her brother's fate.
2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Garland, Michael
Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
When the new teacher, Miss Smith, reads to her class, Zack and his classmates are amazed to find that the storybook characters come to life.
2003
Search the Library Catalog for this title Graham, Bob
Dimity Dumpty : the Story of Humpty's Little Sister
Humpty Dumpty's little sister is too shy to be part of her family's circus act, but she finds courage when her brother needs her help.
2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Grey, Mini
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle, Diddle" become vaudeville stars before turning to a life of crime. Their taste for the high life puts them in debt to a gang of sharp and shady characters (depicted as evil knives). A visual treat with new details to discover again and again, here is absurd good fun for the whole family.
2006
Search the Library Catalog for this title Grimm, Jacob
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.
2007
Search the Library Catalog for this title Grindley, Sally
Who Is It?
Readers can try to identify fairy tale heroes and villains from clues in the text and illustrations.
2000
Search the Library Catalog for this title Hale, Bruce
Snoring Beauty
An adaptation of the traditional tale, featuring a sleeping, snoring princess who is rescued by a prince after being cursed by a bad fairy.
2007
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