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Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear: tales from native North America
Par Joseph Bruchac. 2011
Focuses on the transition from boyhood to manhood. The collection of sixteen stories recounts the customs of tribes such as…
the Iroquois, Wampanoag, Cherokee, Apache, Pueblo, Lakota, and Cheyenne. Grades 5-8. 2011.Bone button borscht
Par Aubrey Davis. 1995
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.Boy soup, Ogre fun, Catmagic and Dirty dog boogie: When Giant Caught Cold
Par Loris Lesynski. 1996
When Giant wakes up with a cold, he wants a bowl of Boy Soup. Catching the boys is easy, but…
what he doesn't count on is Kate! Grades K-3. 1996. Taped with: Ogre fun by Loris Lesynski. Instead of scaring his ogre family and friends, Gronny catches a contagious case of yawns and brings them back home, where no one has ever seen a yawn before. Grades K-3. 1997. Taped with: Catmagic by Loris Lesynski. Things go topsy-turvy when Arabelle and her cat move into the Witches' Retirement Home. 1998. Taped with: Dirty dog boogie by Loris Lesynski. Fun poems about mosquitoes, sock fluff, fretting mothers and monkey wallpaper - even one called "I Hate Poetry!". Grades K-3. 1999.All the ever afters: the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother
Par Danielle Teller. 2018
How to catch the tooth fairy
Par Adam Wallace. 2017
Beauty and the Beast: lost in a book
Par Jennifer Donnelly. 2017
Belle finds an enchanted book in the Beast’s library called Nevermore that carries her into a glittering new world. There,…
Belle is befriended by a mysterious countess who offers her the life she’s always dreamed of. But Nevermore is not what it seems, and the more time Belle spends there, the harder it is to leave. Good stories take hold of us and never let us go, and once Belle becomes lost in this book, she may never find her way out again. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2017.Beauty and the beast
Par Elizabeth Rudnick. 2017
Belle has dreamt of adventures like the ones she reads in her books, of traveling the world outside her small…
town. When Belle's father is captured, she takes his place as a prisoner of a fearsome Beast. But life in the enchanted castle isn't as terrible as Belle imagines, and she ultimately finds friendship and love. Enjoy this film novelization about adventure and love, and about looking past first appearances. Grades 3-6. 2017.Bull: a novel
Par David Elliott. 2017
"Minos thought he could pull a fast one on me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one…
on whom you should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE OCEAN! I got capacity! Depths! Darkness! Delphic power! So his sweet little plan went big-time sour and his wife had a son born with horns and a muzzle who ended up in an underground puzzle. What is it with you mortals? You just can't seem to learn: If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned". Elliott turns a classic on its head in form and approach, updating the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur for a new generation. A rough, rowdy, and darkly comedic retelling in verse, "Bull" will have readers re-evaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Hamster princess: Harriet the invincible (Hamster princess. #1.)
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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
Par Andrew Lang, Brian Alderson. 1978
Gluskabe and the four wishes
Par 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
Par 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
Par Wallace Tripp. 1976
Freddie and the fairy
Par 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
Par 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.)
Par 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
Par 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.