Fractured Fairy Tales
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 | Ahlberg, Janet & Allen |
| Each Peach Pear Plum |
Using rhyming text and careful illustrations, the Ahlbergs play "I Spy" with a villageful of familiar storybook characters.
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 | Catling, Patrick Skene, illustrated by Margot Apple |
| The Chocolate Touch |
Patrick’s a modern-day-Midas with a twist — everything that his lips touch turns to chocolate!
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 | Dahl, Roald, illustrated by Quentin Blake |
| Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes |
Read here to find out the truth about several fairy tale characters from Little Red Riding Hood’s collection of wolf-skin coats, to Snow White’s gang of gambling dwarves, to the big bad wolf’s fondness for dynamite.
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 | Farmer, Nancy |
| The Sea of Trolls |
Nancy Farmer turns Jack and Jill into an epic adventure, complete with vikings, trolls, bards, and heart. Wonderful.
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 | Levine, Gail Carson |
| Ella Enchanted |
Cursed with the “gift” of obedience, along with the requisite wicked stepmother and stepsisters, Ella sets out on a quest to lift her fairy gift once and for all.
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 | McKinley, Robin |
| Beauty |
How did Beauty come to be imprisoned in the Beast’s enchanted castle? And why on earth would she stay?
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 | Miranda, Anne, illustrated by Janet Stevens |
| To Market To Market |
This take on the familiar rhyme goes to the super market, where our bevy of animals causes just a little chaos.
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 | Pullman, Philip, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes |
| I Was a Rat |
Could the little boy who appears on the old couple’s doorstep really have started life as a rat?
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 | Sierra, Judy |
| Monster Goose |
Mother Goose gets a monstrous makeover in this collection of gruesome, giggle-inducing rhymes.
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 | Stevens, Janet |
| And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon |
We all know that the Dish ran away with the Spoon. Find out what happens next...
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 | Trivisas, Eugene, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury |
| The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig |
Three cuddly little wolves build a succession of increasingly fortress-like homes to outwit a very destructive pig.
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 | Yolen, Jane, illustrated by Diane Stanley |
| Sleeping Ugly |
This beginning reader turns a familiar tale on its head, as a kiss-wielding prince must choose between kindly Plain Jane and beautiful Princess Miserella.
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