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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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When her mother sends her on a "mission" that takes her into the deep, dark woods, Ruby puts on her…
red cloak and becomes Super Red Riding Hood, a superhero who is scared of nothing--except coming face-to-face with a big, bad wolf. Grades K-3. Winner of the 2016 Blue Spruce Honour Book Award. 2014.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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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 also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate. Followed by "The Gingerbread Girl goes animal crackers". Grades K-3. 2006.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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In this retelling of the classic tale, the three little pigs build homes inspired by the signature houses of famed…
architects Frank Gehry, Phillip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright, and fill the interiors with furnishings by renowned designers, piquing the interest of a certain evil wolf. Grades K-3. 2010.Available copies:
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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After dodging an enormous, rolling tomato, townsfolk hold a festival to honour the red fruit. Grades K-3. 2014.
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Eric Carle brings Aesop's fables to life in these retellings of eleven of his fables. Includes The lion and the…
mouse, The fox and the ox, and The grasshopper and the ants. Grades K-3. 2008.Available copies:
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Wow Wow the fox pup has learned a lot about the hows and whys of being a fox. He knows…
how to hunt and hide, and he's very proud of his red and white and black fur. But he doesn't know much about fleas, until the day he wakes up feeling very, very itchy. Haw Haw the crow offers her friendship and guidance in this charming adaptation of the Celtic legend, 'How The Fox Lost His Fleas'. Grades K-3. 2014.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Think there's just one fairy tale with a beautiful girl and an evil stepmother? Think again! Cultures all around the…
world have their own Snow White stories. Visit Albania, Germany, Mozambique, and Turkey, and find out who meets 40 dragons instead of seven dwarfs, and on whose forehead a bright star shines. Grades K-3. 2014.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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New adaptation of a favourite fairy tale. Goatilocks can’t resist sampling first Papa Bear’s porridge, then Mama Bear’s porridge, then…
Baby Bear’s porridge—and his bowl and spoon, too. And it turns out Goatilocks has a taste for chairs and beds as well. Has Goatilocks devoured her way to disaster? What will happen when the Bear family returns home from their walk? Grades K-3. 2014. Uniform title: Goldilocks and the three bears.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Little, who has an acorn fall on his head and runs in…
a panic to his friends Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, and others, to tell them the sky is falling. Grades K-3. 2014. Uniform title: Chicken Licken.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Very Little Red Riding Hood is little. Very little. She's brave and bossy, fearless and determined, loving and funny. And…
like all toddlers she likes everything just so – woe betide anyone and anything that gets in her way! She’s off to her grandmama's for a sleepover. She's got some cakes, she's got Red Teddy, she's got her blanket and she's got her tea set. And nothing is going to get in the way of her well-laid plans. Not even a Wolf! Grades K-3. 2014.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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A long time ago in China, there lived a young girl named Mulan. Her father was a retired general who…
taught her many skills girls weren't normally allowed to learn, like martial arts, archery, sword play and how to ride a horse. One day, soldiers came to Mulan's village to order that a man from each family had to join the army and fight because China was in danger. Mulan's father was too old, but was honour-bound to fight. That night, Mulan came up with a brave but risky plan to save the honour of her family and her father's life. Print text in English and Chinese. Grades K-3. 2014.Available copies:
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A lonely elephant mistreated by her warthog cousins charms Prince Trunky with the help of a furry godmouse. Grdes K-3. 2013. Uniform title: Cinderella.
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Poor Humpty Dumpty has a big fall, but this version ends with a happy twist that children will love! Grades P-2. 2012.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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A terrific tale that turns classic nursery rhymes on their heads! Full of familiar characters like Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo…
Peep, and the Three Little Pigs, kids won't be able to resist giggling (and singing) along as Little Jack Horner tries to remember who exactly was on Old MacDonald's farm! Grades K-3. 2012.Available copies:
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This retelling of an ancient legend explains how the panda first got its black and white coat. Set in the…
Wolong Valley in China, where pandas still live today, it tells of a young shepherd girl who faced terrible danger to save a snowy white panda. The book also includes facts on pandas and information on groups that work to prevent their extinction. Grades K-3. 1998.Available copies:
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On a dark winter's night, a beggar arrives in a small town and says that he's going to make bone…
button borscht. That's impossible, say the townspeople, you can't make borscht from buttons! But they all come out to help and to see a miracle done. Grades K-3. 1995.Available copies:
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East Africa. Kioko had been watching the matatus (public busses) come and go for as long as he could remember,…
but today, for his fifth birthday, he climbs aboard one with his grandfather. As the matatu pulls away from the market, the village dogs chase after them. When Kioko asks his grandfather why the dogs always bark and chase after matatus, his grandfather tells him an entertaining tale about a dog, a goat and a sheep. Grades K-3. 2012.Available copies:
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A retelling of the traditional Japanese tale describing the origins of the beckoning cat and how it came to be a symbol of good luck. K-3. 2011.
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A magical boy grants a poor flower-seller's every wish until the greedy and ungrateful man grows tired of the boy's unpleasant behavior and sends him away. Grades K-3. 2011.
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Gentle fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Sukaq loves to drift off to sleep listening to his mother tell him stories. His favourite story is the tale…
of how a raven created the world. But this time, as his mother begins to tell the story and his eyelids become heavy, he is suddenly whisked away on the wings of the raven to ride along as the entire world is formed! This traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose is brought to life through co-author Kerry McCluskey's jubilant retelling.Available copies:
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