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Hamster princess: Harriet the invincible (Hamster princess. #1.)
By Ursula Vernon. 2016
Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on…
her twelfth birthday. After two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Hamster princess: of mice and magic". 2016.Fairest
By Gail Carson Levine. 2015
Aza's singing is the fairest in all the land, and the most unusual. She can "throw" her voice so it…
seems to come from anywhere. But singing is only one of the two qualities prized in the Kingdom of Ayortha. Aza doesn't possess the other: beauty. Not even close. She's hidden in the shadows in her parents' inn, but when she becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, she has to step into the light - especially when the queen demands a dangerous favour. A magic mirror, a charming prince, a jealous queen, palace intrigue, and an injured king twine into a maze that Aza must penetrate to save herself and her beloved kingdom. Grades 4-7. 2015.Frog moon
By Lola Lemire Tostevin. 1994
As she grows up in Ansonville, a French-speaking town in Northern Ontario, Laure begins to collect stories. The stories come…
from her parents, ghost stories, fairy tales, and French-Canadian and Cree legends. When she moves to Toronto, Laure realizes how important the stories really are. Some descriptions of sex. c1994.Girls to the rescue [book #1]: tales of clever, courageous girls from around the world
By Bruce Lansky. 1995
Ten stories where the clever, brave heroes of fairy tales are girls. In a typical fairy tale, a helpless girl…
waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the heroines in these stories are much too busy saving the day to wait around for Prince Charming. Grades 3-6. 1995.Green fairy book
By Andrew Lang, Brian Alderson. 1978
Gluskabe and the four wishes
By Joseph Bruchac. 1995
An Abenaki Indian tale of three foolish men and one wise man, each of whom seeks a wish from Gluskabe,…
helper of the Great Spirit. Their wishes are fulfilled in unexpected ways, thus conveying a moral lesson to the reader. Grades 3-6 and older. c1995.Hansel and Gretel
By Rika Lesser. 1984
A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by…
a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner. Grades 2-4. 1984.Granfa' Grig had a pig and other rhymes without reason
By Wallace Tripp. 1976
Freddie and the fairy
By Julia Donaldson. 2011
Freddie is desperate for a pet, so when he rescues Bessie-Belle and she offers to grant his wishes he knows…
just what to ask for. The only problem is that Bessie-Belle can't hear very well, and Freddie tends to mumble. Whatever can they do? K-3. 2011.Fairy and folk tales of Ireland
By W. B Yeats. 1973
A collection of folk tales, songs, poems, and legends gathered by Yeats and first published separately as "Fairy and folk…
tales of the Irish peasantry" in 1888 and "Irish fairy tales" in 1892. The cast of characters includes fairies, leprechauns, pookas, ghosts, witches, giants, and royalty. 1996, c1973.Favorite North American Indian legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics Ser.)
By Philip Smith. 1994
A collection of 13 legends told by North American Native people. They include the Algonquin tale of how Glooscap conquered…
the great Bull-Frog, a Tsimshian myth about how the seasons came into being, and a Pueblo story called "The man who married the moon." Grades 3-6. 1994.Fairy tale
By Alice Thomas Ellis. 1996
Eloise declares herself determined to have a baby. Simon doesn't want one, and Eloise's mother Clare sends her best friend…
to deal with the emergency. Clare turns up to join them just as Eloise returns from her wanderings with a newborn baby. Did she steal the baby? Or was she pregnant all along? The baby has startling green eyes, the cat won't stay in the same room with it, and Eloise behaves more and more oddly. 1996.Dream quest: Stories From Spirit Bay (Annick young novels)
By Amy Jo Cooper. 1987
In these stories of Ojibwa tradition, the children are taught to accept the importance of the dream world. An elder…
interprets the dreams, showing the path of their lives. For junior and senior high readers. c1987.Earth Elder stories: the Pinayzitt path
By Alexander Wolfe. 1988
Daughters of Copper Woman
By Anne Cameron. 1981
A collection of myths and legends from the Nootka Indian women of Vancouver Island with a feminist perspective. They record…
the development of a matriarchal society and the coming of the Europeans and Christianity which weakened the Indian society. Some descriptions of sex. 1981.Doruntine
By Ismail Kadare, Jusuf Vrioni, Jon Rotchschild. 1988
In a medieval Albanian town, two women, mother and daughter, are on their deathbed. Three years have passed since Doruntine…
married a foreigner and went off with him to his home far to the west in Bohemia. In the meantime, war broke out and all her brothers died. And last night, she came home. 1988. Uniform title: Doruntine.Count Silvernose: a story from Italy
By Eric A Kimmel. 1996
Story of a mysterious, silver-nosed man who asks an old washerwoman to send each of her three daughters to be…
his servant. When the two foolish younger daughters are reported to be dead, the clever eldest daughter agrees to work for the count to rescue or avenge her sisters. Grades 2-4. 1996.Crazy Jack
By Donna Jo Napoli. 1999
The traditional tale is transformed into a coming-of-age story about risk taking. Here, an older Jack climbs a beanstalk, steals…
from a giant, and finds that his treasures have a different value back home. Throughout his struggles, Jack's loyalty to his mother and his true love, Flora, remains steadfast. Grades 5-8. 1999. Uniform title: Jack and the beanstalk.Aunt Mary, tell me a story: a collection of Cherokee legends and tales
By Mary U Chiltoskey, Mary Regina Ulmer Galloway. 1990
Colombo's book of marvels
By John Robert Colombo. 1979