{"id":15646,"date":"2020-04-16T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2021-08-15T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:39:40","slug":"fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fairy tale, it turns out, does not necessarily have to have fairies in it. Strictly speaking, it\u2019s a story containing folkloric fantasy characters \u2013 which means that such fairy-less classics as <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>, <em>Jack and the Beanstalk<\/em>, and <em>The Hobbit<\/em> are fairy tales. A better term might be \u201cwonder tale.\u201d That said, try these\u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e976fde44ed\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/2\/#NEW_TAKES_ON_FAIRY_TALES\" >NEW TAKES ON FAIRY TALES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/3\/#SLEEPING_BEAUTIES\" >SLEEPING BEAUTIES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/3\/#BEAUTIES_AND_BEASTS\" >BEAUTIES AND BEASTS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/4\/#FROG_PRINCES\" >FROG PRINCES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/4\/#RUMPELSTILTSKINS\" >RUMPELSTILTSKINS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/5\/#CINDERELLAS_AND_RATS\" >CINDERELLAS AND RATS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/5\/#BEANSTALK_CLIMBERS\" >BEANSTALK CLIMBERS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/6\/#PIGS_AND_WOLVES\" >PIGS AND WOLVES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/6\/#BEARS\" >BEARS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/7\/#RIDING_HOODS\" >RIDING HOODS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/8\/#PRINCESSES_AND_PEAS\" >PRINCESSES AND PEAS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/8\/#MULTICULTURAL_FAIRY_TALES\" >MULTICULTURAL FAIRY TALES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/9\/#FOREIGN-LANGUAGE_FAIRY_TALES\" >FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FAIRY TALES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/9\/#POETRY\" >POETRY<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/9\/#SHAKESPEARES_FAIRIES_PEASEBLOSSOM_AND_CO\" >SHAKESPEARE\u2019S FAIRIES: PEASEBLOSSOM AND CO.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/9\/#MAPPING_FAIRYLAND\" >MAPPING FAIRYLAND<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/10\/#ACTIVITIES_Build_a_Castle_Write_a_Book_Make_Cinderellas_Pumpkin_Tarts\" >ACTIVITIES: Build a Castle! Write a Book! Make Cinderella\u2019s Pumpkin Tarts!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/10\/#FAIRY_TALES_AND_MATH\" >FAIRY TALES AND MATH<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/11\/#FAIRY_TALES_AND_SCIENCE_Potions_Flying_Carpets_and_How_to_Fake_a_Fairy\" >FAIRY TALES AND SCIENCE: Potions, Flying Carpets, and How to Fake a Fairy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-22\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/fairy-tales\/11\/#ABOUT_FAIRY_TALES_For_Older_Readers\" >ABOUT FAIRY TALES: For Older Readers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SOME_GENERAL_RESOURCES\"><\/span><strong>SOME GENERAL RESOURCES<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15473 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sur-la-lune-203x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sur-la-lune-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sur-la-lune.jpg 347w\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlalunefairytales.com\/\">Sur la Lune Fairytales<\/a> is a wonderful compendium of nearly 50 annotated tales, each with a detailed history, gallery of illustrations, book list, and list of similar tales from around the world. A terrific and comprehensive resource for fairy-tale lovers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of Pittsburgh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~dash\/folktexts.html\">Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts<\/a> has complete texts of an enormous alphabetized list of fairy tales and fables.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CLASSICS_MORE_OR_LESS\"><\/span><strong>CLASSICS, MORE OR LESS<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-234x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-768x983.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-1200x1536.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together-1600x2048.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-short-read-together.jpg 1953w\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mary Ann Hoberman\u2019s <em>You Read to Me, I\u2019ll Read to You<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2004) is an illustrated collection of eight very short traditional fairy tales for adults and kids to read together. The stories are written in the form of rhyming poems for two voices (printed in two different colors), and they\u2019re both funny and fun. (\u201cI\u2019m the princess!\/I\u2019m the pea!\/Look at me!\/No, look at me!\/Pea, you made me black and blue.\/I am flat because of you.\u201d) For ages 4-8 and their grown-ups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr-300x223.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr-1536x1141.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-handful-of-beans-9781481439619_hr.jpg 1884w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jeanne Steig\u2019s <em>A Handful of Beans<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1998) is a charming retelling of six classic fairy tales (\u201cRumpelstiltskin,\u201d \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d \u201cHansel and Gretel,\u201d \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood,\u201d \u201cThe Frog Prince,\u201d and \u201cJack and the Beanstalk\u201d), with personality-laden illustrations by William Steig. Irresistible and infuriatingly out of print. Available from used-book suppliers and libraries. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Out of print books? Just one more reason to love the library.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yummy-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yummy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yummy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yummy.jpg 488w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Lucy Cousins of the wonderful Maisy books, <em>Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairytales<\/em> (Candlewick, 2009) includes such favorites as \u201cThe Enormous Turnip,\u201d \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood,\u201d \u201cThe Bremen Town Musicians,\u201d \u201cThe Three Little Pigs,\u201d and \u201cThe Billy Goats Gruff.\u201d Warning: there\u2019s a lot of gobbling up. Chosen as a Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Book of the Year. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-210x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-1076x1536.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales-1434x2048.jpg 1434w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/random-house-fairy-tales.jpg 1751w\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Adapted by Amy Ehrlich and gorgeously illustrated by Diane Goode, <em>The Random House Book of Fairy Tales<\/em> (Random House Books for Young Readers, 1985) is a collection of 19 favorites by such fairy-tale greats as Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Grimm. Titles include \u201cRapunzel,\u201d \u201cThe Twelve Dancing Princesses,\u201d \u201cJack and the Beanstalk,\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d For ages 4-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/philip-pullman-fairy-tales-196x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/philip-pullman-fairy-tales-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/philip-pullman-fairy-tales.jpg 327w\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Philip Pullman in his 400+-page <em>Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm<\/em> (Viking, 2012) has reworked fifty traditional tales, among them such perennial favorites as \u201cCinderella,\u201d \u201cSnow White,\u201d \u201cRumpelstiltskin,\u201d and \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood.\u201d Each tale is followed by commentary, a history of the tale, and a list of similar stories. A gem of a book for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of Pittsburgh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~dash\/grimm.html\">The Grimm Brothers\u2019 Home Page<\/a> has information about the Grimms\u2019 collected fairy tales, a chronology of the Grimm brothers\u2019 lives, and etexts of the stories.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Online texts of 209 Brothers Grimm fairy tales can also be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~spok\/grimmtmp\/\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-fairy-tales-tatar-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-fairy-tales-tatar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-fairy-tales-tatar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-fairy-tales-tatar.jpg 500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Maria Tatar\u2019s <em>The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales<\/em> (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2002) and <em>The Annotated Brothers Grimm<\/em> (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2012) are beautifully designed collections with historical background information, reproductions of classic illustrations, and biographies of prominent fairy-tale writers and collectors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-hans-andersen-257x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-hans-andersen-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/annotated-hans-andersen.jpg 513w\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><em>The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen<\/em> (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2007) features notes by Harvard fairy-tale scholar Maria Tatar, a biography of Andersen, historical background information on the tales, and wonderful illustrations from earlier editions of Andersen\u2019s works. Stories include twelve for children, among them \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes,\u201d \u201cThe Snow Queen,\u201d \u201cThe Princess and the Pea,\u201d \u201cThe Ugly Duckling,\u201d and \u201cThe Little Mermaid.\u201d A second set of twelve creepier stories is designated \u201cfor adults.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/hca.gilead.org.il\/\">Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and Stories<\/a> has online texts of Andersen\u2019s 168 stories, listed in chronological order. (The thirty most popular are bulleted.) Also at the website: a biography of Andersen, a slide show of Andersen fairy tales on postage stamps, and a rendition of the song \u201cHans Christian Andersen\u201d by Danny Kaye.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lang-blue-fairy-bk-232x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lang-blue-fairy-bk-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lang-blue-fairy-bk.jpg 314w\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was the author of twelve fairy tale collections, now known as the Colored Fairy Books. <em>The Blue Fairy Book<\/em> was the first of the series, originally published in 1889, followed by <em>The Red Fairy Book<\/em>, then the <em>Green<\/em>, <em>Yellow<\/em>, <em>Pink<\/em>, <em>Grey<\/em>, <em>Violet<\/em>, <em>Crimson<\/em>, <em>Brown<\/em>, <em>Orange<\/em>, <em>Olive<\/em>, and <em>Lilac<\/em>. All twelve are available in paperback from <a href=\"http:\/\/store.doverpublications.com\/\">Dover Publications<\/a>. Complete texts of all are also available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/worldoftales.com\/fairy_tales\/Andrew_Lang_fairy_tales.html\">World of Tales<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-princess-235x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-princess-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-princess.jpg 392w\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Wendy Jones\u2019s <em>The Fairy-Tale Princess: Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest <\/em>(Thames &amp; Hudson, 2012) includes the princess-themed stories of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, the Frog Prince, Snow White, the Princess and the Pea, and the Twelve Dancing Princesses \u2013 all illustrated with truly spectacular 3-D paper sculptures by Su Blackwell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See a gallery of Blackwell\u2019s paper sculptures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublackwell.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/storynory.com\/archives\/fairy-tales\/\">Storynory<\/a> has a large collection of free audio stories for kids, including fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault, world folktales, Aesop\u2019s fables, and selections from <em>1001 Nights<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jr-great-books-229x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jr-great-books-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jr-great-books.jpg 762w\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The Junior Great Books Grade K-1 program includes \u201cThe Shoemaker and the Elves,\u201d \u201cThe Frog Prince,\u201d \u201cHansel and Gretel,\u201d and \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarves.\u201d Grade 2 includes \u201cJack and the Beanstalk,\u201d and Grade 3 \u201cThe Fisherman and His Wife\u201d and \u201cThe Ugly Duckling.\u201d This is a reading-and-discussion program, based on a \u201cshared inquiry\u201d approach that promotes creative and critical thinking. (Why DID the giant\u2019s wife hide Jack from her husband?) For more information on the books and programs (available for all ages), visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbooks.org\/\">Great Books Foundation<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-and-beyond-231x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-and-beyond-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-and-beyond.jpg 486w\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Joan Wolf\u2019s 100+-page <em>The Beanstalk and Beyond: Developing Critical Thinking Through Fairy Tales<\/em> (Libraries Unlimited, 1997) is a creative multidisciplinary collection of extension activities for classic fairy tales. For example, kids make fairytale graphs, invent fairytale quizzes, design original characters, participate in fairytale role play, write a fairy-tale newspaper, create their own original fairy-tale stories and plays, and much more. Targeted at grades 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Core Knowledge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coreknowledge.org\/free-resource\/ckla-domain-01-fairy-tales-tall-tales\/\">Fairy Tales and Tall Tales<\/a> is a detailed eight-lesson study unit targeted at grade 2, covering \u201cThe Fisherman and His Wife,\u201d \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes,\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d along with the all-American legends of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/lesson-plan\/hans-christian-andersens-fairy-tales#sect-thelesson\">Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s Fairy Tales<\/a> is a lesson plan for grades K-2 with discussion questions and activities based on \u201cThe Ugly Duckling,\u201d \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes,\u201d \u201cThe Little Match Girl,\u201d and \u201cThe Darning Needle.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/lesson-plan\/fairy-tales-around-world#sect-activities\">Fairy Tales Around the World<\/a> is a lesson plan for grades K-2 in which kids learn what constitutes a fairy tale, discuss different types of fairy tales, and experiment with retelling and illustrating fairy tales.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfreshplans.com\/\">Fresh Plans<\/a> has well-organized multidisciplinary lesson plans to accompany <em>The Princess and the Pea<\/em>, <em>Twelve Dancing Princesses<\/em>, <em>Foolish Jack<\/em>, <em>Toads and Diamonds<\/em>, <em>Little Red Riding Hood<\/em>, <em>The Boy Who Cried Wolf<\/em>, <em>Cinderella<\/em>, and more, with resources, book lists, and activities for English, math, science, social studies, character education, and the arts. Adaptable for a range of ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>NEW TAKES ON FAIRY TALES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harolds-fairy-tale-236x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harolds-fairy-tale-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harolds-fairy-tale.jpg 380w\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Crockett Johnson\u2019s <em>Harold\u2019s Fairy Tale<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2004), Harold, armed with his magic purple crayon, draws himself a bedtime fairy tale that begins with an enchanted garden and ends with a flying carpet. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-the-end-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-the-end-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-the-end-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-the-end.jpg 560w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Geoffrey Kloske\u2019s <em>Once Upon a Time, The End<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005) is a collection of very short, very fractured fairytales read by an exhausted father who just wants his perky toddler to go to sleeps. First he abbreviates the tales (the Three Little Pigs, for example, are reduced to two); then he introduces sleep themes. \u201cThe Princess and the Pea\u201d winds up with \u201cIs there a pea under your bed? Then what\u2019s your excuse? Go to bed.\u201d Funny and clever for ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-300x245.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-1536x1253.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/interrupting-chicken-1-2048x1670.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Who hasn\u2019t wanted to shout \u201cDON\u2019T GO THERE!\u201d when a favorite fairy-tale character is about to make a fatal mistake? In David Ezra Klein\u2019s <em>Interrupting Chicken<\/em> (Candlewick, 2010), a patient father rooster (in spectacles and carpet slippers) tucks his offspring, a little red chicken, into bed and attempts to read a bedtime story \u2013 only to be continually interrupted by his daughter, who can\u2019t bear the impending doom. \u201cOut jumped a little red chicken,\u201d she cries, as her father reaches a crucial point in <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, \u201cand she said \u2018DON\u2019T GO IN! SHE\u2019S A WITCH!\u2019 So Hansel and Gretel didn\u2019t. THE END!\u201d Finally the little red chicken embarks on a story of her own, only to be interrupted by her tired father\u2019s snores. For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beware-storybk-wolves-241x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beware-storybk-wolves-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beware-storybk-wolves.jpg 318w\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Lauren Child\u2019s <em>Beware of the Storybook Wolves<\/em> (Scholastic, 2000), Herb loves a wolfish bedtime story \u2013 he\u2019s particularly fond of <em>Little Red Riding Hood<\/em> \u2013 but he always makes his mother take the book out of his bedroom before he goes to sleep. One night she forgets \u2013 and out of the pages pops a pair of storybook wolves, looking for a meal of little boy. Herb manages to vanquish them, with the help of a luckily placed fairy-tale anthology featuring a fairy godmother. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-bears-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-bears-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-bears-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-bears.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Little Ella is in charge of Meg McKinlay\u2019s witty and delightful <em>No Bears<\/em> (Candlewick, 2012) and she has strong opinions about what makes a good fairy tale: princesses, fairy godmothers, giants, and even monsters are fine, but there must be NO BEARS. Leila Rudge\u2019s illustrations tie in a host of interested fairy-tale characters. Including a helpful bear. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-234x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-799x1024.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-768x984.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-1198x1536.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs-1598x2048.jpg 1598w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-True-Stories-of-the-Three-Little-Pigs.jpg 1941w\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>According to Jon Scieszka\u2019s <em>The True Story of the Three Little Pigs<\/em> (Puffin, 1996), the Wolf \u2013 Alexander T. Wolf, that is \u2013 has been wronged: he only wanted to borrow a cup of sugar from the pigs to make his grandmother a birthday cake. And all the huffing and puffing? He had a cold. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For more versions of the Three Little Pigs, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/perfect-pigs\/\">Perfect Pigs<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/honestly-red-riding-hood-was-rotten-1.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Trisha Speed Shaskan\u2019s <em>Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten!<\/em> (Capstone\/Picture Window Books, 2011) lacks the charm and pizzazz of Scieszka\u2019s <em>The True Story of the Three Little Pigs<\/em>, but similarly turns a traditional tale on its head. Here, the wolf is a vegetarian, but he\u2019s starving, and Red Riding Hood and her grandma look suspiciously like apples. Other titles in the series include Shaskan\u2019s <em>Seriously, Cinderella Is So Annoying<\/em>, Nancy Jean Loewen\u2019s <em>Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!,<\/em> and Eric Mark Braun\u2019s <em>Trust Me, Jack\u2019s Beanstalk Stinks!<\/em> For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-248x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-1269x1536.jpg 1269w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stinky-cheese-man-1692x2048.jpg 1692w\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jon Scieszka\u2019s <em>The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales<\/em> (Viking Juvenile Books, 1992) is a collection of comic, confused, and unconventional takes on traditional fairy tales, among them \u201cThe Princess and the Bowling Ball,\u201d \u201cThe Really Ugly Duckling,\u201d \u201cLittle Red Running Shorts,\u201d and \u201cJack\u2019s Bean Problem.\u201d For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-192x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-768x1197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-985x1536.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-for-rapunzel.jpg 1604w\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Leah Wilcox\u2019s <em>Falling for Rapunzel<\/em> (Puffin, 2005), illustrated with wonderful paper-and-paint collages, Rapunzel is actually weeping over a bad hair day, but the prince believes that she\u2019s a prisoner longing to be freed. Unfortunately her tower is so high that she can\u2019t hear what he\u2019s shouting up to her \u2013 so when asked to throw down her hair, she instead pitches out underwear. The frustrated prince embarks upon a list of other possibilities, all in vain \u2013 asked for locks, he gets socks; for tresses, dresses; for rope, cantaloupe; and for a ladder, pancake batter. Finally, desperate, he shouts \u201cThrow down your braid!\u201d Rapunzel promptly tosses out her maid \u2013 with whom the prince falls in love and off they ride to live happily ever after. A fractured fairy tale with a touch of Amelia Bedelia. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-300x239.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-1536x1222.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-who-cried-boy-2048x1629.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Bob Hartman\u2019s <em>The Wolf Who Cried Boy<\/em>, Little Wolf complains endlessly about the family diet of Lamburgers, Sloppy Does, Three-Pig Salad, and Chocolate Moose \u2013 he\u2019d like to eat Boy. So he embarks upon a clever plan: he shouts \u201cBoy! Boy!\u201d \u2013 causing his parents to leave the house and spend the evening searching for the elusive boy. After two nights of this, Little Wolf\u2019s parents catch on to his ploy and agree to ignore him for the evening. Unfortunately for Little Wolf, that very night an entire Boy Scout troop hikes through the woods. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/clever-jack-258x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/clever-jack-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/clever-jack.jpg 619w\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Candace Fleming\u2019s <em>Clever Jack Takes the Cake<\/em> (Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2010), poor Jack \u2013 invited by mistake to the princess\u2019s tenth birthday party \u2013 decides to bake her a cake, a wonderful confection topped by an enormous strawberry. En route, however, after run-ins with four-and-twenty blackbirds, a troll, a spooky dark forest, a hungry bear, and a strawberry-snatching palace guard, not a crumb is left. Instead, Jack tells the princess the exciting story of his adventure \u2013 which the princess, bored silly with gifts of tiaras, pronounces the very best present of all. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jolly-postman-300x235.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jolly-postman-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jolly-postman.jpg 700w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Janet and Allan Ahlberg\u2019s <em>The Jolly Postman<\/em> (Little Brown, 2001) is a wonderful collection of letters by and to nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale characters, all right there in the book, in addressed envelopes. Goldilocks writes a letter of apology to the Bears and invites Baby Bear to her birthday party; the Wicked Witch (of Gingerbread Cottage, The Woods) gets a flier from Hobgoblin Supplies, Ltd., offering a great deal on Little Boy Pie Mix; the Big Bad (B.B.) Wolf gets a snappy letter from Little Red Riding Hood\u2019s attorney. Delightful for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dear-peter-rabbit-254x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dear-peter-rabbit-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dear-peter-rabbit.jpg 338w\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Alma Flor Ada\u2019s <em>Dear Peter Rabbit<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001), written as a series of letters among storybook characters, Pig One invites Peter Rabbit to a housewarming party, Baby Bear invites Goldilocks (here surnamed McGregor) for a visit and offers chocolate cake; Goldilocks mentions her father\u2019s missing vegetables and his find of a tiny pair of shoes left behind in the garden. The illustrations, in pen and ink and watercolor, are filled with charming details. In the same format, also see Ada\u2019s <em>Your Truly, Goldilocks<\/em> and <em>With Love, Little Red Hen<\/em>. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon-300x286.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon-1024x976.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon-1536x1464.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dish-ran-away-with-spoon.jpg 1889w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Janet Stevens\u2019s <em>And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon<\/em>, it\u2019s the end of \u201cHey diddle diddle:\u201d the Dish and the Spoon seem to have absconded permanently. Their absence is discovered by the fiddle-playing cat who, horrified, shouts, \u201cEVERYBODY UP! They didn\u2019t come back!\u201d Cat, Dog, and Cow, as they struggle to find their missing friends and put their rhyme together again, run into helpful (or not-so-helpful) fairy-tale and nursery-rhyme characters, among them Little Boy Blue, the Big Bad Wolf, and Miss Muffet\u2019s spider. The illustrations are filled with hilarious details (check out the lamb suit hanging on the Wolf\u2019s coat rack). For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/into-the-forest-300x274.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/into-the-forest-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/into-the-forest.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Anthony Browne\u2019s <em>Into the Forest<\/em> (Walker Books, 2005), a little boy wakes to a horrific thunderstorm. In the morning his father has disappeared and his mother has no idea when he will return. His mother then sends the worried boy off with a basket for his sick grandmother, but warns him to take the long way around, not the shortcut through the forest. He takes the shorter path anyway \u2013 and finds himself in a creepy wood, filled with fairy-tale imagery, where he meets assorted classic characters, among them a sobbing Hansel and Gretel, Jack (trying to sell a cow), and a hungry Goldilocks, and finds a red coat hanging from a tree. By the time he reaches his grandmother\u2019s house, anxiety is at a peak, made more so by the sound of a seemingly strange voice (wolf?) behind the door \u2013 but all is well; his grandmother is better; his father is there; and together father and son go happily home. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sisters-grimm-225x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sisters-grimm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sisters-grimm.jpg 375w\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Michael Buckley\u2019s Sisters Grimm series follows the adventures of sisters Sabrina and Daphne, ages 11 and 7, modern-day descendants of the famous Brothers Grimm, who have been sent to live with their grandmother and her companion, the mysterious Mr. Canis, in Ferryport Landing. It turns out that Ferryport Landing is a far-from-usual town, populated by fairy-tale characters known as Everafters. In the first of the series, <em>The Fairy Tale Detectives<\/em> (Amulet\/Abrams, 2005), a giant is on the rampage, and the girls \u2013 with the help of a Magic Mirror, a flying carpet, the devilish Puck, and Jack, of Beanstalk fame \u2013 must stop him. There are many sequels. For ages 7-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twice-upon-a-time-series-220x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twice-upon-a-time-series-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twice-upon-a-time-series-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twice-upon-a-time-series-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twice-upon-a-time-series.jpg 880w\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Wendy Mass\u2019s clever and funny Twice Upon a Time series, classic fairytales get catchy updates. Try this from Mass\u2019s <em>Rapunzel, the One With All the Hair<\/em> (Scholastic, 2012): \u201c5<sup>th<\/sup> of Augustus. I seriously CANNOT BELIEVE what has happened to me today. I am currently throwing a tantrum on the pile of straw that is supposed to serve as my bed (!) and \u2013 this is the most unbelievable part \u2013 I am LOCKED IN A TOWER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST!!\u201d Other titles are <em>Sleeping Beauty, the One Who Took a Really Long Nap<\/em> and <em>Beauty and the Beast, the Only One Who Didn\u2019t Run Away<\/em>. Great chapter books for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairys-mistake-189x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairys-mistake-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairys-mistake-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairys-mistake-768x1219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairys-mistake.jpg 945w\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The books in Gail Carson Levine\u2019s Princess Tales series are all out-of-the-ordinary takes on classic fairy tales, among them <em>The Fairy\u2019s Mistake<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1999), a play on Charles Perrault\u2019s \u201cDiamonds and Toads;\u201d <em>The Princess Test<\/em>, a twist on \u201cThe Princess and the Pea;\u201d and <em>Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep<\/em>, an unexpected version of \u201cSleeping Beauty.\u201d For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-205x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories-1397x2048.jpg 1397w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-of-stories.jpg 1705w\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Chris Colfer\u2019s <em>The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2012), twins Alex and Connor are given a magical book for their twelfth birthday that acts as a gateway, sending them into the world of fairy-tale characters \u2013 though this is an after-the-tale-type world, in which Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White are all married to their Prince Charmings; Cinderella is pregnant; and Goldilocks, grown up, is now a fugitive who rides a horse named Porridge. The kids embark on a quest to collect eight magical items that will allow them to activate the Wishing Spell and return home. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood-1021x1024.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/guardians-of-childhood.jpg 1399w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>William Joyce\u2019s Guardians of Childhood series explains the surprising origins of such childhood icons as Nicholas St. North (an ex-bandit and wizard\u2019s apprentice), E. Aster Bunnymund (a pooka rabbit, inventor of Spring, jokes, chocolate, and Australia), Jack Frost, and <em>Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012), tiny, green-winged, and fierce. For ages 9-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For more information, illustrations, and excerpts, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardiansofchildhoodbooks.com\/\">The Guardians of Childhood<\/a> website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thief-and-beanstalk-202x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thief-and-beanstalk-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thief-and-beanstalk.jpg 345w\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>P.W. Catanese\u2019s Further Tales series books are exciting villain-and-battle-filled sequels to classic fairytales. <em>The Thief and the Beanstalk<\/em> (Aladdin, 2005), for example, involves an orphan named Nick, a gang of ruffians, a lonely castle, and a giant invasion; <em>The Brave Apprentice<\/em>, a sequel to \u201cThe Brave Little Tailor,\u201d features Patch, a young tailor\u2019s apprentice, and a troll war; and <em>The Eye of the Warlock<\/em>, an extension of \u201cHansel and Gretel,\u201d pits young Rudi and friends against Vilikus, an evil warlock, and his army of amphibian murglins. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leaping-beauty-202x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leaping-beauty-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leaping-beauty.jpg 336w\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Sleeping Beauty as a frog? Cinderella as an elephant? Gregory Maguire\u2019s <em>Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2006) retells eight fairy tales, recasting the characters as animals. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/green-children-of-woolpit-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/green-children-of-woolpit-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/green-children-of-woolpit.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Based on an old English legend, J. Anderson Coats&#8217;s <em>The Green Children of Woolpit<\/em> (Atheneum, 2019) tells the story of 12-year-old Agnes who saves two strange green children from a wolf trap &#8211; and then becomes embroiled in a plot involving the world of fairies. A creepy and fascinating read for ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairest-206x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairest-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairest.jpg 433w\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Gail Carson Levine, <em>Fairest<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2008) is the story of Aza, homely, but born with a talent for singing and ventriloquism. The message of this Snow White tale is that beauty isn\u2019t everything. For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bros-grimm-and-sisters-weird-202x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bros-grimm-and-sisters-weird-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bros-grimm-and-sisters-weird-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bros-grimm-and-sisters-weird-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bros-grimm-and-sisters-weird.jpg 1009w\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\u201cHow to Fracture a Fairy Tale,\u201d reads the list on the back of Vivian Vande Velde\u2019s thoroughly fractured <em>Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2005): 1. Make the villain a hero. 2. Make the hero a villain. 3. Tell what really happened. 4. All of the above.\u201d In this collection of twisted tales, Rumplestiltskin is a kindly elf from a parallel universe, whom the miller\u2019s daughter much prefers to the greedy king; Beauty likes the Beast better as a beast; and Hansel and Gretel, rather than innocent babes in the wood, are positively evil. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tale-dark-and-grimm-198x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tale-dark-and-grimm-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tale-dark-and-grimm.jpg 450w\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The stories in Adam Gidwitz\u2019s <em>A Tale Dark and Grimm<\/em> (Puffin, 2011) are \u2013 well, awesome \u2013 though occasionally in a gruesome sort of way, for which readers get fair warning from intercalated comments from the author. The connecting thread is protagonists Hansel and Gretel (twins) who serve to tie together eight delightfully gruesome Grimm tales. The action continues, via Jack and Jill, in <em>In a Glass Grimmly<\/em>. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/small-persons-with-wings-198x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/small-persons-with-wings-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/small-persons-with-wings.jpg 353w\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Ellen Booraem\u2019s <em>Small Persons With Wings<\/em> (Puffin, 2012), Mellie Turpin, in kindergarten, boasted to the other kids about Fidius, the tiny opalescent-winged fairy who slept on her pillow. When she was unable to produce Fidius at show-and-tell, her classmates made her life miserable. Now she\u2019s thirteen; her parents have inherited a falling-down inn from her grandfather; and Mellie is looking forward to a new fairy-free life in a new town. What she discovers is that the new house is infested with fairies and her family is entrusted with a magical moonstone and a fairy pact that dates back to the time of Charlemagne. For ages 10-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-195x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view-1332x2048.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trolls-eye-view.jpg 1510w\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, <em>Troll\u2019s-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales<\/em> (Firebird, 2010) is a collection of fairy-tale variants by such authors as Neil Gaiman, Peter Beagle, Garth Nix, Kelly Link, and Nancy Farmer. For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-at-door-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-at-door-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-at-door-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-at-door-768x1201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wolf-at-door.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Datlow and Windling have also collaborated on several adult collections of alternative fairy tales and on two other collections for young people: <em>A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales<\/em> (Aladdin, 2001) and <em>Swan Sister<\/em> (Aladdin, 2005).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/snow-white-and-rose-Wrede-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/snow-white-and-rose-Wrede-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/snow-white-and-rose-Wrede.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Patricia Wrede\u2019s <em>Snow White and Rose Red<\/em> (Firebird, 2009), sisters Blanche and Rosamunde live with their herbalist mother on the border of Faerie, where Doctor John Dee \u2013 astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I \u2013 and his friend Ned Kelly, the villains of the piece, are attempting to seize the magic power of Faerie for themselves. Their machinations result in Hugh, son of the Queen of Faerie, being turned into a bear. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-618x1024.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-768x1272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-927x1536.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel-1236x2048.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zel.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Donna Jo Napoli has written a number of fairy-tale-based novels, in which psychological depth, complexity, and occasional role reversal are added to familiar stories, often turning them startlingly on end. <em>The Magic Circle<\/em> (Puffin, 1995) is a twist on the tale of Hansel and Gretel; <em>Zel<\/em> (Dutton Juvenile Books, 1996), a.k.a. Rapunzel, is a beloved child whose mother imprisons her in a tower since she can\u2019t bear the thought of her daughter leaving home; and <em>Crazy Jack<\/em> (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1999) is a version of <em>Jack and the Beanstalk<\/em> enhanced by a romance with a neighbor\u2019s daughter and a lesson on the perils of materialism. In <em>Spinners<\/em> (Puffin, 2001), a young tailor cripples himself spinning straw into gold on a magic wheel in hopes of winning the hand of his (pregnant) beloved \u2013 whose father gives her instead to a wealthy miller. (The tailor earns the sobriquet \u201cRumpelstiltskin;\u201d his loved one dies bearing their daughter, who grows up to be a talented spinner.)<em> Beast<\/em> (Simon Pulse, 2004) begins in Persia, and explains how the Beast became a Beast. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-768x1174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-1005x1536.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1-1340x2048.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grimm-legacy-1.jpg 1521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Polly Shulman\u2019s <em>The Grimm Legacy<\/em> (Puffin, 2011), teenaged Elizabeth takes a job as a page at the New York Circulating Materials Repository \u2013 a lending library of historical artifacts, including the marvelous Grimm Collection, filled with such items as mermaid combs, Seven-League boots, winged sandals, bottled genies, and a particularly nasty Magic Mirror. When items from the Collection start disappearing, Elizabeth and friends set out to catch the thief and end up embroiled in a dangerous quest. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-and-beast-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-and-beast-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-and-beast.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>By Francesca Lia Block \u2013 author of <em>Weetzie Bat<\/em> \u2013 <em>The Rose and the Beast<\/em> (HarperTeen, 2001) is a fascinating retelling of nine classic fairy tales (each given a one-word title: \u201cSnow,\u201d \u201cTiny,\u201d \u201cGlass,\u201d \u201cWolf,\u201d \u201cRose\u201d) in modern California settings. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/710LpME3evL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/710LpME3evL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/710LpME3evL-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/710LpME3evL-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/710LpME3evL.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>By Jennifer Donnelly, <em>Stepsister<\/em> (Scholastic, 2019) is the story of Cinderellas&#8217;s stepsisters &#8211; the warrior-like Isabelle and the intellectually brilliant Octavia &#8211; and the battle between Chance and the Fates to see how they&#8217;ll fulfill their destinies. A wonderful read for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-768x1182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-998x1536.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed-1331x2048.jpg 1331w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-mother-she-killed.jpg 1625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Kate Bernheimer, <em>My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me<\/em> (Penguin Books, 2010) is a collection of forty new fairy tales by modern authors, among them Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, and Karen Joy Fowler. Included are new and very different takes on such classics as <em>Bluebeard<\/em>, <em>Snow White and Rose Red<\/em>, <em>The Juniper Tree<\/em>, <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, <em>Cinderella<\/em>, and <em>Jack and the Beanstalk<\/em>. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jonathan-strange-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jonathan-strange-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jonathan-strange-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jonathan-strange-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jonathan-strange.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susanna Clarke\u2019s dense, Dickensian, and fascinating <em>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell<\/em> (Tor Books, 2006), set during the Napoleonic Wars, the title characters are the last two magicians in England. Characters include some truly eerie fairies. Over 1000 pages long; for older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stolen-child-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stolen-child-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stolen-child.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The protagonist of Keith Donohue\u2019s <em>The Stolen Child<\/em> (Anchor Books, 2007) is a changeling. Henry Day \u2013 now known as Aniday \u2013 was taken from his family when he was seven by a feral gang of hobgoblins, and an imposter left in his place. The book juxtaposes the stories of the pair: Aniday, who has morphed into an ageless creature living in the forest; and \u201cHenry,\u201d who grows up to be a pianist, haunted by memories of another life. A shivery interpretation of fairy legends for older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-768x1238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-953x1536.jpg 953w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel-1270x2048.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-hansel-and-gretel.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Louise Murphy\u2019s <em>The True Story of Hansel and Gretel<\/em> (Penguin, 2003) is a wrenching tale set in the Holocaust: two Jewish children, ages 11 and 7, are abandoned in the Polish woods by their father and stepmother. Renamed Hansel and Gretel, they are taken in by Magda, a Romani \u201cwitch\u201d who is determined to save them from the Nazis. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-over-easy-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-over-easy-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-over-easy-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-over-easy-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-over-easy.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Jasper Fforde\u2019s <em>The Big Over Easy<\/em> (Penguin Books, 2006) is a fairy-tale spoof on crime fiction: detectives Mary Mary and Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crimes Division investigate the death of Humperdinck Dumpty (found shattered; he fell \u2013 or was he pushed? \u2013 off a wall). For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/intothewoods-streep2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/intothewoods-streep2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/intothewoods-streep2-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/intothewoods-streep2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Stephen Sondheim\u2019s prize-winning musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2180411\/\"><em>Into the Woods<\/em><\/a> (2014), which premiered on Broadway in 1987, the plot entangles characters from such classic Grimm fairy tales as Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk,, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, as a baker and his wife search for magic objects to lift the curse that has made them childless. A fractured fairy tale with a dark side. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/grother-grimm-movie.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Terry Gilliam\u2019s film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0355295\/\"><em>The Brothers Grimm<\/em><\/a> (2005), starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as Wilhelm and Jacob, is set in the early 1800s in French-occupied Germany, where the duplicitous brothers travel from town to town pretending to rid the populace of supernatural creatures. Then they encounter a genuine magical mystery and an enchanted forest filled with fairy-tale characters. Too spooky for the very young. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the Internet Movie Database, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/5rY61qpi0Jw\/\">The Best Fairytale Movies and TV Series<\/a> for an annotated list, from <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> (1939), <em>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/em> (1937), and <em>Cinderella<\/em> (1950) to <em>Tangled<\/em> (2010) and <em>Puss in Boots<\/em> (2011).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marilynkinsella.org\/Workshop%20papers\/Fractured_Thoughts_workshop.htm\">Marilyn Kinsella\u2019s Fractured Fairy Tales<\/a> has suggestions for writing fractured tales, a bibliography of fractured stories, and a helpful teacher\u2019s guide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>SLEEPING BEAUTIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waking-beauty-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waking-beauty-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waking-beauty.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Leah Wilcox\u2019s <em>Waking Beauty<\/em> (Putnam Juvenile, 2008), the fairies insist that Beauty must be woken with a kiss, but Prince Charming insists on other methods: bellowing, jumping on the bed, soaking the princess with cold water, and shooting her out of a cannon. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-ugly-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-ugly-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-ugly.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Sleeping Ugly<\/em> (Puffin, 1997), a beautiful but nasty princess (Miserella), a sweet but homely orphan (Plain Jane), and an inept fairy godmother are all put to sleep by a slip-up with a magic wand. When the prince arrives, he decides to practice first by kissing Jane \u2013 and at the end of the tale, he and Jane are living happily ever after, with the fairy godmother in the house next door, and the still-sleeping princess doubling as a hat rack. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wide-awake-princess-series-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wide-awake-princess-series-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wide-awake-princess-series.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In E.D. Baker\u2019s <em>The Wide-Awake Princess<\/em> (Bloomsbury USA, 2012), Princess Gwendolyn pricks her finger and falls asleep, and the entire castle sleeps with her \u2013 except her sister Annabelle, whose fairy gift is a resistance to magic. Plucky Annie and a young castle guard, Liam, set off to find the proper Prince Charming to break the spell, meeting other fairy-tale characters along the way, among them Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and an enchanted bear. There\u2019s more about the enchanted bear in the sequel, <em>Unlocking the Spell<\/em>. For ages 10-14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end-768x1211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end-974x1536.jpg 974w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spindles-end.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Robin McKinley\u2019s <em>Spindle\u2019s End<\/em> (Firebird, 2002), the infant princess Rosie is cursed by an evil fairy, Pernicia, to die on her 21<sup>st<\/sup> birthday by pricking her finger on a spindle. Taken away for safekeeping by the fairy Katriona and raised in the peasant village of Foggy Bottom, Rosie grows up to be feisty, self-actualized, and self-sufficient \u2013 and she also has a magical talent: she can talk to animals. As Rosie\u2019s fatal birthday approaches, she discovers her true identity; and she and friends Peony and Narl, the taciturn (but handsome) village blacksmith, prepare to defeat Pernicia. A great read for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/briar-rose-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/briar-rose-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/briar-rose.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Chosen as a Best YA Book by the American Library Association, Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Briar Rose<\/em> (Tor Teen, 2002) is a Sleeping Beauty story set in the Holocaust. The main character, Becca, sets out to find the truth behind her grandmother Gemma\u2019s bedtime story about a sleeping princess in a castle, a quest that leads her to the concentration camps of Poland. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-beauty-ballet-theater-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-beauty-ballet-theater-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-beauty-ballet-theater.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jean Mahoney\u2019s <em>The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Theatre<\/em>(Candlewick, 2007) is a foldout theater with backdrops, a caste of nine dancing characters, a booklet about the title ballet, and a CD of the accompanying music by Tchaikovsky. For ages 6 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-bella-ballerina-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-bella-ballerina-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-bella-ballerina.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In James Mayhew\u2019s <em>Ella Bella Ballerina and The Sleeping Beauty<\/em> (Barron\u2019s Educational Series, 2008), Ella Bella \u2013 who loves to listen to the music from \u201cThe Sleeping Beauty\u201d ballet on her ballet teacher\u2019s music box \u2013 is magically transported inside the story, to the Princess Aurora\u2019s palace. Also see <em>Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella<\/em>. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>BEAUTIES AND BEASTS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beauty-McKinley-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beauty-McKinley-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beauty-McKinley-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beauty-McKinley-768x1163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beauty-McKinley.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In <em>Beauty<\/em> (HarperTeen, 2005), Robin McKinley\u2019s retelling of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty is not nearly as beautiful as her two older sisters, but she is smart and she has a way with horses. After her father picks the fatal rose, Beauty (and her horse) go to live in the Beast\u2019s castle. The bones of the traditional tale are there, but this is a rich amplification of the original, and this Beauty is a terrific, brave, and intelligent heroine. For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-daughter-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-daughter-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-daughter.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>For older teenagers and adults, Robin McKinley\u2019s <em>Rose Daughter<\/em> (Ace, 1998) is a deeper and more mature version of the tale, filled with wonderful details.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storynory.com\/the-blind-mans-daughter\/\"><em>Shimchong, The Blind Man\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a> is a \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d tale from Korea.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>FROG PRINCES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/horned-toad-prince-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/horned-toad-prince-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/horned-toad-prince.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jackie Mims Hopkins\u2019s <em>The Horned Toad Prince<\/em> (Peachtree Publishers, 2010) is a southwestern-style Frog Prince, in which cowgirl Reba Jo \u2013 a whiz with a lasso \u2013 loses her hat down a well and ends up promising a clever horned toad three wishes (a bowl of chili, a song on the guitar, and a nap in the hat) if only he\u2019ll retrieve it for her. The message here is \u201ca deal is a deal,\u201d though Reba Jo does her best to wiggle out of the bargain \u2013 and there\u2019s a clever twist at the end after a kiss turns the toad into a handsome caballero. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-prince-cont-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-prince-cont-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-prince-cont.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jon Scieszka\u2019s <em>The Frog Prince Continued<\/em> (Puffin, 1994), living happily ever after is a dreadful disappointment: the princess is thoroughly annoyed with the prince\u2019s persistent froggy behaviors (\u201cStop sticking your tongue out like that!\u201d). The discouraged prince sets out to find a magic spell that will turn him back into a frog \u2013 in vain, though he encounters three familiar fairy-tale witches, and Cinderella\u2019s fairy godmother, who turns him into a carriage. Finally he returns to the palace where the princess has missed him. He kisses her and (!) they both turn into happy frogs. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-princess-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-princess-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-princess-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-princess-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frog-princess.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In E.D. Baker\u2019s <em>The Frog Princess<\/em> (Bloomsbury USA, 2004), Princess Esmeralda kisses a frog \u2013 and promptly turns into a frog herself. The pair spends the rest of the book attempting to undo their amphibian spell, which involves the help of a bat, a snake, and a wise witch. Several sequels. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frog-movie.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The Disney film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0780521\/\">The Princess and the Frog<\/a> (2009), set in New Orleans, features Tiana, a girl who cooks a mean gumbo, Prince Naveen, turned into a frog by a voodoo magician, and some helpful fireflies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>RUMPELSTILTSKINS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-rump-daughter-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-rump-daughter-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-rump-daughter.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Diane Stanley\u2019s <em>Rumpelstiltskin\u2019s Daughter<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2002), the miller\u2019s daughter, instead of marrying the selfish gold-demanding king, marries kindly Rumpelstiltskin who likes children. (Also she has a weakness for short men.) Sixteen years later, Rumpelstiltskin\u2019s daughter Hope finds herself in the same pickle that her mother once was: locked in a room with a pile of straw while the king demands gold. Rather than call on her father for help, however, Hope cleverly inveigles the king out of his greedy ways, and convinces him to provide for his poverty-stricken subjects. Delighted at the rewards brought by generosity, the king proposes to the clever Hope, who turns him down. She offers instead to be his prime minister. An empowering tale for ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/duffy-and-devil-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/duffy-and-devil-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/duffy-and-devil.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Harve Zemach\u2019s picture book <em>Duffy and the Devil<\/em> (Farrar, Straux &amp; Giroux, 1986), with illustrations by Margot Zemach, is a Cornish-style Rumpelstiltskin tale in which Duffy, Squire Lovel\u2019s lazy servant girl, gets help with her chores from a sly little devil \u2013 with the proviso that in three years, he\u2019ll take her away, unless she can guess his name. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/straw-into-gold-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/straw-into-gold-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/straw-into-gold.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>What if the Queen had <em>not<\/em> guessed Rumpelstiltskin\u2019s name? In Gary D. Schmidt\u2019s novel <em>Straw Into Gold<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2009), young Tousle, who lives in a cottage in the forest with Da, his adoptive father, travels to the city and ends up speaking up \u2013 along with the queen \u2013 in defense of rebels destined for execution. Their lives (and his) will be spared, the king decrees, if Tousle \u2013 in just seven days \u2013 can solve the riddle: \u201cWhat fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold?\u201d Tousle sets out on a danger-filled quest to find the answer in company with the blind rebel boy Innes \u2013 and they ultimately discover the surprising truths about Rumpelstiltskin, the queen\u2019s missing child, and their own heritages. For ages 10-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RumplestiltskinProblem-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RumplestiltskinProblem-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RumplestiltskinProblem.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Vivian Vande Velde\u2019s <em>The Rumpelstiltskin Problem<\/em> (HMH, 2013) features six different versions of the story, in which the various miller\u2019s daughters solve their problems in wildly different ways. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spinning-silver-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spinning-silver-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spinning-silver.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Naomi Novik&#8217;s brilliant and fantastical <em>Spinning Silver<\/em> (Del Rey, 2018) is a retelling of the Rumplestiltskin story, set in a mythical Eastern Europe, in which a clever moneylender&#8217;s daughter attracts the attention of the icy king of the Staryk. A wonderful read for ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>CINDERELLAS AND RATS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderella-peng-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderella-peng-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderella-peng.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Janet Perlman\u2019s <em>Cinderella Penguin, or The Little Glass Flipper<\/em> (Puffin, 1995) sticks quite closely to the traditional plot, except that all the characters \u2013 including the put-upon Cinderella, the evil stepsisters, the charming prince, and the fairy godmother \u2013 are penguins. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinder-edna-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinder-edna-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinder-edna-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinder-edna-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinder-edna.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Ellen Jackson\u2019s <em>Cinder Edna<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1998), Edna, Cinderella\u2019s self-sufficient neighbor \u2013 who can play the accordion and knows 16 different ways to make tuna casserole \u2013 goes to the ball in penny loafers and ends up marrying the prince\u2019s kind-hearted younger brother, Rupert. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-1024x850.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-1536x1275.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prince-cinders-2048x1700.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Babette Cole\u2019s <em>Prince Cinders<\/em> (Puffin, 1997), Cinders is a scrawny underdog who spends his life cleaning up after his three beefy older brothers. Left at home when his brothers roar off to the Palace Disco, Cinders encounters a well-meaning but inept fairy (she falls down the chimney), who does her best to make his wishes come true, but only succeeds in turning him into a large hairy ape. Still, after a couple of twists and turns and a pair of lost trousers, he manages to capture the heart of Princess LovelyPenny. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cindy-ellen-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cindy-ellen-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cindy-ellen-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cindy-ellen.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susan Lowell\u2019s Wild-West-style <em>Cindy Ellen<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2001), Cindy \u2013 who underneath her ragged clothes is pretty as a peach \u2013 is forced to do all the dirty work on the ranch by her meaner-than-rattlesnakes stepmother and stepsisters. When she\u2019s forbidden by the nasty trio to attend the big rodeo and square dance, a snarky fairy godmother shows up, tells her to get a little gumption, and sends her off to the dance decked out in diamond spurs to win the love of Joe Prince. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-1024x867.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-1536x1301.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fannys-dream-2048x1735.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Caralyn Buehner\u2019s <em>Fanny\u2019s Dream<\/em> (Puffin, 2003), Fanny, a Wyoming farm girl with romantic dreams of marrying a prince, is thrilled when she hears that the mayor is throwing a ball. She dresses in her best, hurries out to the garden, and waits for the arrival of her fairy godmother \u2013 who fails to appear. Instead the cheerful (and very short) Heber Jensen shows up, and proposes. Heber and Fanny marry, tend their farm, and have three children \u2013 at which point, belatedly, Fanny\u2019s fairy godmother finally arrives. Fanny, however, no longer needs her: she realizes that she\u2019s found her prince and is living happily ever after. 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alt=\"Image result for bubba the cowboy prince\" data-iml=\"1553286670544\" data-atf=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Helen Ketteman\u2019s Cinderella parody, <em>Bubba, the Cowboy Prince<\/em> (Scholastic, 1997), Bubba is an overworked cowhand, bossed around on the family ranch by his mean stepdaddy and stepbrothers Milton and Dwayne. Luckily, with some magical help from his fairy godcow, he goes to the ball at Miz Lurleen\u2019s ranch. Miz Lurleen, the richest, prettiest girl around, just happens to be looking for a cowhand who is \u201ccute as a cow\u2019s ear.\u201d For ages 6-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderellas-rat-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderellas-rat-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cinderellas-rat.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Susan Meddaugh\u2019s <em>Cinderella\u2019s Rat<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2002) is narrated by the rat who was caught in a trap by Cinderella\u2019s fairy godmother and transformed into a coachboy. (\u201cI was born a rat. I expected to be a rat all my days. But life is full of surprises.\u201d) At the ball, the coachboy and his sister Ruth \u2013 still a rat \u2013 are caught in the palace larder, where a fellow servant insists that they visit a wizard so that the presumably-enchanted Ruth can be turned back into a girl. This isn\u2019t as simple as the wizard expected, since Ruth really <em>is<\/em> a rat. A great collection of unexpected twists for ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat-1385x2048.jpg 1385w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-was-a-rat.jpg 1547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Philip Pullman\u2019s 176-page <em>I Was a Rat!<\/em> (Yearling, 2002), Old Bob and his wife Joan open their door one night to find a little boy in a ragged page\u2019s uniform who can only say \u201cI was a rat.\u201d He is, in fact, one of the enchanted rats who accompanied Cinderella (a.k.a. Lady Aurelia Ashington, but known to the rat as Mary Jane) to the ball. Bob and Joan name the rat-boy Roger and do their best to care for him, but his rat nature makes it difficult: at home, he shreds his bedding; sent to school, he eats pencils and bites the teacher. Soon the story of the rat-boy is all over town \u2013 popularized by tabloid stories in <em>The Daily Scourge<\/em> \u2013 and Roger, after a series of misadventures, ends up condemned to death as the so-called \u201cMonster of the Sewers.\u201d He\u2019s saved by the devoted Bob and Joan, with help from the newly-married Princess Aurelia. A great read and a good discussion book for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ella-enchanted.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Gail Carson Levine\u2019s Newbery Honor-winning Cinderella tale, <em>Ella Enchanted<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1998), Ella has been cursed at birth by the idiotic fairy Lucinda, who saddled her with the \u201cgift\u201d of obedience \u2013 such that Ella, willy-nilly, has to do whatever anyone tells her to do. When her mother dies, Ella is left to cope with her selfish father, a miserable finishing school, and eventually a stepmother and a pair of wretched stepsisters as she struggles to rid herself of Lucinda\u2019s curse. There\u2019s also an unexpected fairy godmother, a handsome prince, a pair of glass slippers, and a happy-ever-after ending. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-ella-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-ella-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-ella.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Margaret Peterson Haddix\u2019s <em>Just Ella<\/em> (Simon Pulse, 2007), life after the ball isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be. Ella, now the Prince Charming\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, is bored with embroidery and court etiquette, disenchanted with the prince, and attracted to her much nicer tutor, Jed. When she tries to break the engagement, however, the not-so-charming Charming locks her in the dungeon. For ages 10-14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stepsister-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stepsister-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stepsister.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Jennifer Donnelley&#8217;s <em>Stepsister <\/em>(Scholastic, 2019), set in eighteenth-century France, is told from the point of view of Isabella, one of the stepsisters, and her quest to change her destiny which &#8211; unbeknownst to her &#8211; is a part of a wager between the rascally Marquis de Chance and the Fates. Isabella&#8217;s bravery and her sister Octavia&#8217;s brilliance eventually go to show that there&#8217;s more to life than simply being pretty &#8211; especially with a warlord ravaging the countryside. A great read for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/slipper-and-rose-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/slipper-and-rose-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/slipper-and-rose.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>There are many Cinderella movies &#8211; among them Disney&#8217;s animated classic <em>Cinderella<\/em> (1950), <em>Ever After<\/em> (1998), which purports to tell the true story of Cinderella &#8211; and involves Leonardo da Vinci (PG-13), and Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s 2015 <em>Cinderella<\/em> (PG), in which Cate Blanchett plays the wicked stepmother &#8211; but don&#8217;t miss the beautiful 1976 <em>The Slipper and the Rose<\/em> (G), starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of Southern Mississippi, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.usm.edu\/english\/fairytales\/cinderella\/cinderella.html\">The Cinderella Project <\/a>has texts and images from many historical versions of <em>Cinderella<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>BEANSTALK CLIMBERS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waynetta-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waynetta-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waynetta-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waynetta.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Helen Ketteman\u2019s <em>Waynetta and the Cornstalk<\/em> (Albert Whitman &amp; Company, 2012) is a Texas version of Jack\u2019s beanstalk, in which Waynetta, to her ma\u2019s distress, trades their last longhorn for a handful of magic corn. The corn sprouts an enormous stalk leading to a vast ranch in the sky presided over by a villainous Wild-West-style giant. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kate-and-beanstalk-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kate-and-beanstalk-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kate-and-beanstalk-768x842.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kate-and-beanstalk.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mary Pope Osborne\u2019s <em>Kate and the Beanstalk<\/em> (Aladdin, 2005), the heroine is a smart little girl rather than the traditional dim-witted Jack \u2013 and the giant, it turns out, killed Kate\u2019s father and stole his magical treasures, which Kate bravely manages to take back. She then chops down the beanstalk, killing the hateful giant. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-768x1178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-1002x1536.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack-1336x2048.jpg 1336w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/famous-adv-of-jack.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Berlie Doherty\u2019s 128-page <em>The Famous Adventures of Jack<\/em> (Greenwillow Books, 2001), Jill arrives at Old Mother Greenwood\u2019s cottage door, looking for Jack. But which Jack? Clever Jack, daft Jack, giant-killing Jack? There are, the old woman points out, dozens of them \u2013 but luckily Jill has a patchwork bag filled with clues (such as a herring skeleton, a handful of beans, and a ball), each of which leads Mother Greenwood to tell a Jack tale. For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of Southern Mississippi, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.usm.edu\/english\/fairytales\/jack\/jackhome.html\">The Jack and the Beanstalk\/Jack the Giant-Killer Project<\/a> has texts and images from many historical versions of the stories.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>PIGS AND WOLVES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark-1536x1289.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-fish-and-shark.jpg 1991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ken Geist\u2019s <em>The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark<\/em> (Cartwheel Books, 2007) is \u2013 just like it sounds \u2013 <em>The Three Little Pigs<\/em>, with fish. The fish, a goggly-eyed cartoon trio, are sent off by their mother to make a home in the deep blue sea. The first builds a house of seaweed; the second, of sand; and the third takes up residence in a sunken ship. Then along comes the Big Bad Shark. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ziggy-piggy-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ziggy-piggy-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ziggy-piggy-983x1024.jpg 983w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ziggy-piggy-768x800.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ziggy-piggy.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Frank Asch\u2019s <em>Ziggy Piggy &amp; the Three Little Pigs<\/em> (Kids Can Press, 2001), Ziggy, the fourth little pig, is a feckless type who prefers playing on the beach to house-building \u2013 but when the Wolf manages to blow down the third little pig\u2019s brick house, Ziggy saves the day by using his raft to paddle himself and his siblings out of the Wolf\u2019s reach. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-javelinas-1-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-javelinas-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-javelinas-1-1024x885.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-javelinas-1-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-javelinas-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susan Lowell\u2019s <em>The Three Little Javelinas<\/em> (Cooper Square Publishing, 2004), a southwestern version of <em>The Three Little Pigs<\/em>, the javelinas \u2013 who respectively live in houses of tumbleweed, saguaro sticks, and nice solid adobe bricks \u2013 are preyed upon by a hungry Coyote. For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-architectural-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-architectural-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-architectural.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Steven Guarnaccia\u2019s <em>The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale<\/em> (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2010), the pigs are the very professional alter-egos of famous architects Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. All pore over blueprints as they construct elaborate houses from scraps, glass, or stone and concrete \u2013 this last Wright\u2019s Fallingwater, to which the pigs retreat to escape from the wolf, a sinister character in boots and a leather jacket. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1-816x1024.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1-1225x1536.jpg 1225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-little-wolves-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Eugene Trivizas\u2019s <em>The Three Little Wolves &amp; the Big Bad Pig<\/em> (Margaret K. McElderry, 1997) is a wolf-friendly version of the traditional Pigs tale, in which a trio of cuddly, fluffy-tailed wolves build themselves increasingly sturdy houses, only to be repeatedly attacked by the Big Bad Pig, armed with sledgehammer, jackhammer, and dynamite. They eventually tame the beast by building a gorgeous house of sweet-smelling pig-seducing flowers. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-Wiesner-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-Wiesner-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-Wiesner-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-Wiesner-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David Wiesner\u2019s wonderfully creative <em>The Three Pigs<\/em> (Clarion, 2001), the pigs refuse to stick to their own story line but instead turn a book page into a paper airplane and zoom off into the margins, visiting other fairy tales and nursery rhymes. In the process, they rescue a dragon \u2013 who eventually returns the favor. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wait-no-paint-1-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wait-no-paint-1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wait-no-paint-1.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Bruce Whatley\u2019s <em>Wait! No Paint!<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2005), the author\/illustrator \u2013 represented only by a mysterious Voice \u2013 becomes involved in his own three-pigs story: the house of straw, for example, collapses when he spills a glass of juice across the page; then he runs out of red paint, and so turns the dismayed pigs green. Finally the exasperated pigs announce that they don\u2019t want to be in the story at all. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-768x996.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-1184x1536.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf-1579x2048.jpg 1579w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tell-the-truth-bb-wolf.jpg 1927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Judy Sierra\u2019s <em>Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf<\/em> (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010) \u2013 the \u201cB.B.\u201d stands for Big Bad \u2013 the Wolf, who now lives at Villain Villa, has been invited by Miss Wonderly, the town librarian, to tell the story of his meeting with the three pigs. He puts such a wolf-positive spin on the tale that the audience of fairy-tale characters, among them Pinocchio, the Little Red Hen, and the Gingerbread Boy, begins to protest. (\u201cTell the truth, B.B. Wolf!\u201d squeal the outraged Pigs.) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-and-bad-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-and-bad-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-and-bad.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Etienne Delessert\u2019s <em>Big and Bad<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2008), the Wolf (\u201ctaller than the midnight moon\u201d) is on the rampage, eating every animal in his path. The animals all try to rein him in, with no success until a trio of tempting pale-pink pigs offer themselves as bait. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>BEARS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deep-in-the-forest-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deep-in-the-forest-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deep-in-the-forest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Brinton Turkle\u2019s wordless <em>Deep in the Forest<\/em> (Puffin, 1992) turns the tables on Goldilocks when an adorable baby bear invades a temporarily deserted log cabin, samples the bowls of porridge, breaks a chair, jumps on the beds, and finally falls asleep. When the family returns, a furious little golden-haired girl frightens him into running back to his family. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldie-and-three-hares-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldie-and-three-hares-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldie-and-three-hares.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Margie Palatini\u2019s <em>Goldie and the Three Hares<\/em> (Katherine Tegen Books, 2011), Goldilocks \u2013 pursued by the Bears \u2013 falls down a rabbit hole and hurts her foot. The three resident Hares (Papa, Mama, and Baby) do their best to help, but are soon pop-eyed with dismay since Goldilocks is a dreadful, demanding guest. Soon they\u2019re trying everything they can think of to get her out the door \u2013 but nothing works until Baby Hare calls back the Bears. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leola-and-honeybears-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leola-and-honeybears-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/leola-and-honeybears.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Melodye Rosales\u2019s <em>Leola and the Honeybears<\/em> (Scholastic, 2000), an African-American version of the story of Goldilocks and the bears, Leola \u2013 a charmer in a red hat \u2013 wanders into Pine Hollow Woods, is scared by Ol\u2019 Mister Weasel, and shelters in the empty Honeybears\u2019 inn. There, in spite of her grandmama\u2019s instructions, she makes herself thoroughly at home \u2013 which leads to trouble when the Honeybears return. The kindly Honeybears, however, forgive her and send her home with a basket of treats for her grandmamma. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears-768x953.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears-1237x1536.jpg 1237w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dusty-locks-and-bears.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susan Lowell\u2019s <em>Dusty Locks and the Three Bears<\/em> (Owlet, 2004), Dusty Locks, a grubby far-west Goldilocks who hasn\u2019t had a bath in a month of Sundays, runs away from home and, after chasing a skunk, ends up in the bears\u2019 log cabin. The bears have gone on a walk while waiting for their beans to cool, and in their absence Dusty Locks, who is hungry enough to eat a saddle blanket, wreaks havoc. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-moderne-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-moderne-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-moderne.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Steven Guarnaccia\u2019s <em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Tale Moderne<\/em> (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2010) provides Goldilocks with far more than three chairs and three bowls of porridge. These sophisticated bears (Papa wears a beret and sunglasses, and totes a clarinet) occupy a highly artistic house, furnished with avant-garde pieces by such designers as Charles and Ray Eames and Arne Jacobsen. Endpapers have sketches of all the bears\u2019 furniture and other items, each labeled with the designer\u2019s name. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-returns-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-returns-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-returns.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Lisa Campbell Ernst\u2019s <em>Goldilocks Returns<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers (2003), fifty years have gone by since the porridge-eating, chair-breaking incident, but the now-middle-aged Goldilocks still feels guilty. Planning to do something nice for the Bears, she returns to their little house, finding, providentially, that the bears have gone for a walk. She then sets about redecorating, re-stuffing the mattresses, and replacing their unhealthy porridge with rutabaga bars and celery juice. The Bears, when they return, are horrified by the changes \u2013 but the next day on their walk they spot a golden-haired little girl heading toward their door. They stroll on, clearly hoping that she\u2019ll destroy it all again. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-snow-bears-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-snow-bears-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-snow-bears-1-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-snow-bears-1.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jan Brett\u2019s exquisitely illustrated <em>The Three Snow Bears<\/em> (Putnam Juvenile Books, 2007) is a Goldilocks tale set in the far north, where Aloo-ki, a little Inuit girl, loses her sled and sled dogs (they float away on an ice floe) and, while searching for them, happens upon an empty igloo. Inside, she samples soup, tries on boots, and finally falls asleep in the littlest bed. Then the bears \u2013 who have in the meantime rescued her dogs \u2013 come home. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>To make a Brett-style Three Snow Bears mural, see instructions and printables <a href=\"http:\/\/janbrett.com\/mural_tsb\/mural_three_snow_bears_main.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-by-Child-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-by-Child-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-by-Child.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Lauren Child\u2019s <em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/em> (Puffin, 2009), a collaboration with photographer Polly Borland and theater designer Emily Jenkins, is a delightful retelling of the traditional tale, illustrated with photographs of a curly-headed doll in red Mary Janes and three stuffed bears, all in elaborate miniature settings. The Bears\u2019 cottage, for example, has bear-patterned curtains, an apple bin, carved furniture, and painted porridge bowls. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-and-dinos-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-and-dinos-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-and-dinos-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-and-dinos-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goldilocks-and-dinos.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mo Willems\u2019s hysterical <em>Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, 2012), the dinosaurs make the beds, arrange the chairs, set out three tempting bowls of chocolate pudding heated to various temperatures, and go for a walk. Says Mama Dinosaur, \u201cI SURE HOPE NO INNOCENT LITTLE SUCCULENT CHILD HAPPENS BY OUR UNLOCKED HOME WHILE WE ARE\u2026uhh\u2026SOMEPLACE ELSE!\u201d Luckily visiting Goldilocks wises up before she becomes a dinosaur bon-bon. For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For more resources, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/great-bears\/\">Great Bears.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>RIDING HOODS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-by-Ernst-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-by-Ernst-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-by-Ernst.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Lisa Campbell Ernst\u2019s <em>Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1998), Little Red wears a hoodie and rides a bicycle, and Grandma is a feisty feminist type who drives a tractor and bakes great muffins. Little Red learns not to talk to strangers, and the Wolf \u2013 after a sharp talking-to \u2013 ends up as Grandma\u2019s assistant muffin cook. A muffin recipe is included. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretty-salma-a-little-red-riding-hood-story-from-africa-original-imafbp4rkjp6nb5q-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretty-salma-a-little-red-riding-hood-story-from-africa-original-imafbp4rkjp6nb5q-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretty-salma-a-little-red-riding-hood-story-from-africa-original-imafbp4rkjp6nb5q.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Niki Daly\u2019s <em>Pretty Salma<\/em> (Clarion, 2007) is a Little Red Riding Hood story set in Ghana. Pretty Salma dresses up in her blue scarf, yellow sandals, and striped <em>ntama<\/em> \u2013 a sort of sarong \u2013 and heads off to the market, with a strict warning from her Grandma about talking to strangers. There she buys an enormous watermelon, a speckled rooster, and a pink drink, and starts back home \u2013 only to be thoroughly waylaid and tricked by the devious Mr. Dog. Mr. Dog, now dressed in Salma\u2019s clothes, prepares to trick Grandma, but Salma \u2013 with some help from Grandpa and a scary bogeyman mask \u2013 arrives in time to save the day. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flossie-and-fox-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flossie-and-fox-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flossie-and-fox-768x892.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flossie-and-fox.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Patricia McKissack\u2019s picture book <em>Flossie and the Fox<\/em> (Dial, 1986), an African-American take on Red Riding Hood, Flossie\u2019s mama sends her through the woods to bring a basket of eggs to Miz Viola \u2013 but warns her to look out for the lurking fox. Flossie doesn\u2019t know what a fox looks like, so when one shows up, she steadfastedly refuses to believe that he\u2019s the scary character he insists he is. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/carmine-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/carmine-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/carmine.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Melissa Sweet\u2019s <em>Carmine: A Little More Red<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2008), Carmine has been taught to read by her Granny, using the letters in bowls of alphabet soup. The story is told in part in alphabetical order, using words spelled out in alphabet-soup letters (CLUTTER, DILLY-DALLY, EXQUISITE, MIMIC, NINCOMPOOP). Carmine and dog Rufus set off to visit Granny and share a bowl of alphabet soup, but pause along the way to paint a picture \u2013 and are spotted by the wolf. Off he heads for Granny\u2019s house, but ends up making off with nothing but soup bones. (Included is a recipe for Granny\u2019s alphabet soup.) Wonderful witty paint-and-collage illustrations feature every possible shade of red. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/auntie-tiger-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/auntie-tiger-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/auntie-tiger.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Lawrence Yep\u2019s <em>Auntie Tiger<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2008) is a Chinese Red Riding Hood tale in which Big Sister and Little Sister \u2013 who quarrel all the time \u2013 are left alone at home with an admonition from their mother not to open the door while she\u2019s gone. When a hungry tiger shows up pretending to be the girls\u2019 Auntie, Little Sister foolishly lets him in \u2013 and is promptly gobbled up whole. Big Sister, however, manages to defeat the tiger and save her sister, and the chastened girls vow to get along better in the future. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/petite-rouge-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/petite-rouge-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/petite-rouge.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mike Artell\u2019s <em>Petite Rouge<\/em> (Puffin, 2003), set in the Louisiana bayou, Little Red Riding Hood (Petite Rouge) is a duck, sent to bring her sick Grandma a basket of gumbo and boudin (sausage), but warned to steer clear of the nasty gator, Claude. She doesn\u2019t, and the wicked Claude ends up in Grandma\u2019s bed, wearing frilly pajamas, flippers, and a rubber beak. Petite Rouge deals with him by tossing a hot-sauce-drenched sausage into his mouth. The story is told in rhyme in Cajun dialect (\u201cTake her dis gumbo\/an\u2019 t\u2019ree or two sweater\/An\u2019 some uh dis boudin\/gone make her feel better\u201d), which I found grating, but the illustrations are witty and hilarious. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Also by Mike Artell, see <em>The Three Little Cajun Pigs<\/em> (Dial, 2006), in which Trosclair, Thiboudeaux, and Ulysse build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, the first two of which Claude the hungry gator does in which a swipe of his tail; and <em>Jacques and de Beanstalk<\/em> (Dial, 2010), in which the beanstalk sprouts in a mangrove swamp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-cowboy-hat-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-cowboy-hat-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-red-cowboy-hat.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Susan Lowell\u2019s <em>Little Red Cowboy Hat<\/em> (Square Fish, 2004), Little Red is a feisty frontier girl with hair the color of firecrackers, who wears cowboy gear and shoots rattlesnakes with her slingshot. Off she goes on horseback to bring her Grandma a jar of cactus jelly, and soon encounters a black-hatted wolf, lurking behind a saguaro cactus. Red and Grandma, no pushovers, dispatch the wolf, and the lesson learned is \u201cA girl\u2019s gotta stick up for herself.\u201d For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lon-popo-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lon-popo-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lon-popo.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Ed Young\u2019s <em>Lon Po Po<\/em> (Puffin, 1996), a Red Riding Hood tale from China, three little girls deal with a truly menacing wolf who shows up at the door pretending to be their grandmother. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/61K46EmyWAL-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/61K46EmyWAL-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/61K46EmyWAL-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/61K46EmyWAL-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/61K46EmyWAL.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Catherine Orenstein\u2019s <em>Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale<\/em> (Basic Books, 2003) traces the complex history and many permutations of the Little Red Riding Hood story. Charles Perrault\u2019s early tale, Orenstein explains, served as a lesson to innocent young girls entering the sinful and politically tricky court of Louis XIV. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the University of Southern Mississippi, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.usm.edu\/english\/fairytales\/lrrh\/lrrhhome.htm\">The Little Red Riding Hood Project<\/a> has texts and images from historical versions of <em>Little Red Riding Hood<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the San Francisco Exploratorium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/exhibits\/ladle\/\">Ladle Rat Rotten Hut<\/a> is a Red Riding Hood version written in 1940 by a professor who wanted to show his students that intonation in language is integral to meaning. Try it! You\u2019ll be surprised\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hoodwinked-movie-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hoodwinked-movie-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hoodwinked-movie-538x1024.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hoodwinked-movie.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The CGI film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443536\/\"><em>Hoodwinked<\/em><\/a> (The Weinstein Company, 2005) purports to be the true story of Little Red Riding Hood. It\u2019s a detective story, in which Red, the Wolf, the Woodsman, and Granny all have very different takes on the real story. (The Wolf, in fact, turns out to be an investigative reporter, with a squirrel sidekick\/cameraperson named \u2013 appropriately \u2013 Twitchy.) Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>PRINCESSES AND PEAS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza-1538x2048.jpg 1538w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pizza.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mary Jane Auch\u2019s <em>The Princess and the Pizza<\/em> (Holiday House, 2003), Princess Paulina enters the competition for the hand of Prince Drupert, and finds that eleven other princesses are also in the running \u2013 among them one with a very long braid and another accompanied by seven little men. Paulina breezes through the pea-under-the-mattress and glass-slipper tests, but the cooking test has her stymied \u2013 until, inadvertently, out of what looked to be a culinary disaster, she invents pizza. She wins the competition hands-down, but decides not to marry Drupert after all, and instead opens a village Pizza Palace. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frozen-peas-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frozen-peas-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-frozen-peas.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Tony Wilson\u2019s <em>The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas<\/em> (Peachtree Publishers, 2012), Prince Henrik\u2019s sister-in-law Princess Eva is a real princess \u2013 she passed the pea test \u2013 but the complaining Eva doesn\u2019t suit Henrik at all: he wants a girl who shares his love of camping and hockey. So he devises his own test involving a sleeping bag and a package of frozen peas (and finds the perfect bride). For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penguin-and-pea-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penguin-and-pea-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penguin-and-pea.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Janet Perlman\u2019s <em>The Penguin and the Pea<\/em> (Kids Can Press, 2006), a bedraggled penguin shows up at the royal castle, claiming to be a princess. A (more or less) straightforward version of the tale. With penguins. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cowboy-and-blackeyed-pea-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cowboy-and-blackeyed-pea-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cowboy-and-blackeyed-pea.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Tony Johnston\u2019s <em>The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea<\/em> (Puffin, 1996), gorgeous Farethee Well, daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher, knows how to tell a real cowboy from a fake: tuck a black-eyed pea under his saddle blanket. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-smart-pea-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-smart-pea-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/very-smart-pea.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mini Grey\u2019s <em>The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-Be<\/em> (Dragonfly Books, 2011) tells the tale of the Princess and the Pea from the point of view of the\u2026pea. The story opens in the palace garden, where the pea \u2013 who always knew it was slated for greatness \u2013 is picked and taken to the queen. The queen has advertised for a real princess, but none of the applicants fill the bill \u2013 until the pea at last decides to intervene. It spends the night hypnotically whispering in the sleeper\u2019s ear about something \u201cLarge and Round and Very Uncomfortable in the bed.\u201d That does the trick, and the prince\u2019s bride-to-be turns out to be the little gardener shown in previous pages in the book, working in the gardens. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pea-by-Child-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pea-by-Child-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-and-pea-by-Child.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Lauren Child\u2019s entrancing <em>The Princess and the Pea<\/em> (Hyperion, 2006) is a humorous modernization of the familiar fairy tale with marvelous illustrations of clever cut-paper characters combined with color photographs of real objects. A delight for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-mattress-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-mattress-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-mattress.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0426148\/\"><em>Once Upon a Mattress<\/em><\/a> (G), a wonderful take on the princess-and-pea story, starring Carol Burnett as Princess Winnifred (a.k.a. Fred).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>MULTICULTURAL FAIRY TALES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-1534x1536.jpg 1534w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twelve-dancing-princesses-2045x2048.jpg 2045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora has written and illustrated several picture-book versions of classic Grimm fairy tales set in Africa, among them <em>Rapunzel<\/em> (Putnam Juvenile Books, 2008) (in which the prince rides a zebra); <em>The Princess and the Pea<\/em>; <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>; <em>The Twelve Dancing Princesses<\/em>; and <em>The Fisherman and his Wife<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series books are collections of many different versions of the same tale from a range of cultures, along with historical background information, notes, and activity suggestions. Titles include Judy Sierra\u2019s <em>Cinderella <\/em>(Oryx Press, 1992), Betsy Hearne\u2019s <em>Beauties and Beasts<\/em> (1993), and Margaret Read MacDonald\u2019s <em>Tom Thumb<\/em> (1993).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><strong>MULTICULTURAL CINDERELLAS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/egyptian-cinderella-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/egyptian-cinderella-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/egyptian-cinderella-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/egyptian-cinderella-768x975.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/egyptian-cinderella.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Shirley Climo\u2019s <em>The Egyptian Cinderella<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1992), the slave girl Rhodopsis loses a rose-red sandal and ends up marrying the pharaoh. Also see Climo\u2019s <em>The Korean Cinderella<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1996), in which the lovely Pear Blossom, with help from a magical frog, sparrow, and black ox, attends the village festival and wins the heart of the wealthy magistrate; and <em>The Persian Cinderella<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2001), which involves a magic jug and a diamond ankle bracelet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yeh-shen-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yeh-shen-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yeh-shen.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Ai-Ling Louie\u2019s <em>Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China<\/em> (Puffin, 1996), Yeh-Shen goes to the spring festival and wins the heart of the prince with the help of a magic fish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rough-face-girl-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rough-face-girl-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rough-face-girl-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rough-face-girl-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rough-face-girl.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Rafe Martin\u2019s <em>The Rough-Face Girl<\/em> (Puffin, 1998) is an Algonquin Cinderella tale in which the fire-scarred heroine deservedly triumphs. Also see Robert D. San Souci\u2019s <em>Sootface<\/em> (Dragonfly Books, 1997), an Ojibwa Cinderella.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15394 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/golden-sandal-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/golden-sandal-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/golden-sandal.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Rebecca Hickox\u2019s <em>The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story<\/em> (Holiday House, 1999), Maha, a poor fisherman\u2019s daughter, is helped by a magic red fish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cendrillon-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cendrillon-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cendrillon-953x1024.jpg 953w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cendrillon-768x826.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cendrillon.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Robert D. Sans Souci\u2019s <em>Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella<\/em> (Aladdin, 2002), told from the godmother\u2019s point of view, involves an enchanted breadfruit coach, agouti horses, and a pair of bright pink slippers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smoky-mt-rose-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smoky-mt-rose-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smoky-mt-rose.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Alan Schroeder\u2019s <em>Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella<\/em> (Puffin, 2000), told in down-home dialect, features a square dance and a fairy godmother\/talking pig.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila-836x1024.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila-768x940.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila-1255x1536.jpg 1255w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/domitila.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Jewell Reinhart Coburn\u2019s <em>Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition<\/em> (Shens Books, 2000), Domitila, a terrific cook and talented leatherworker, wins the heart of the governor\u2019s son.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mufaros--252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mufaros--252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mufaros-.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In John Steptoe\u2019s <em>Mufaro\u2019s Beautiful Daughters<\/em> (Puffin, 2008), a Cinderella tale in the African tradition, Mufaro has two beautiful daughters, one selfish and bad-tempered, one kind and generous.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/baba-yaga-and-vasilisa-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/baba-yaga-and-vasilisa-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/baba-yaga-and-vasilisa.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Marianna Mayer\u2019s <em>Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1994), a Russian Cinderella tale, Vasilisa, abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, is sent to live with the fearsome witch Baba Yaga in her house of bones. She succeeds in pleasing the witch with the help of a magical doll, the gift of her dead mother \u2013 and ends up living happily ever after, married to the tsar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-1024x922.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-768x691.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-1536x1382.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-orphan-2048x1843.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In <em>The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece <\/em>(Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2011) by Anthony Manna and Soula Mitakidou, Sun, Moon, Dawn, and the Sea \u2013 who donates a pair of blue shoes \u2013 all collaborate to help the orphan find her prince.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-1536x1198.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/salmon-princess-2048x1597.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mindy Dwyer\u2019s <em>The Salmon Princess: An Alaska Cinderella Story<\/em> (Sasquatch Books, 2004) features red-headed Cinder, an eagle spirit fairy godmother, and a lost fishing boot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anklet-for-princess-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anklet-for-princess-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anklet-for-princess-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anklet-for-princess.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Meredith Babeaux Brucker\u2019s <em>Anklet for a Princess: A Cinderella Story from India<\/em> (Shens Books, 2002) features a godfather Snake, a gold-threaded sari, and a diamond anklet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-furball-1-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-furball-1-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/princess-furball-1.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Charlotte Huck\u2019s <em>Princess Furball<\/em> (Greenwillow Books, 1994), a motherless princess \u2013 whose greedy father plans to marry her to a wealthy ogre \u2013 escapes disguised in a coat made from the skins of a thousand animals. She becomes a servant in a neighboring king\u2019s kitchen, and manages to attend the prince\u2019s ball, where she drops tokens in his soup and captures his heart.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irish-cinderlad-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irish-cinderlad-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irish-cinderlad.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Shirley Climo\u2019s <em>The Irish Cinderlad<\/em>, red-headed young Becan \u2013 who has simply enormous feet \u2013 is miserable when his father brings home a stepmother and three unpleasant stepsisters. In lieu of a fairy godmother, Becan has a magical speckled bull who, by bequeathing him his tail, helps him kill a giant and a dragon and win the hand of the Princess Finola.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the American Library Association, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/resources\/multicultural\">Multicultural Cinderella Stories<\/a> by Mary Northrup is a long annotated list, categorized under Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Also included is a list of Cinderella parodies with suggested activities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the Asia Society, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/education\/resources-schools\/elementary-lesson-plans\/twice-upon-time-multi-cultural-cinderella\">Twice Upon a Time: Multi-Cultural Cinderella<\/a> is an elementary-level lesson plan in which kids read and discuss several different versions of Cinderella stories (a book list is included). Accompanying activities include mapping Cinderella settings on a world map, inventing a new Cinderella story based in a specific country, and making a Cinderella collage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.ne.gov\/forlg\/elementary\/cinderella.pdf \">Cinderella Stories: A Multicultural Unit<\/a> summarizes a large number of different tales and provides a printable student chart to be used for comparing and analyzing stories.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FAIRY TALES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tales-in-latin-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tales-in-latin-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tales-in-latin.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Victor Barocas\u2019s <em>Fairy Tales in Latin<\/em> (Hippocrene Books, 1999) is a collection of twelve classic tales in Latin, among them \u201cTres Porcelli,\u201d \u201cNovae Vestes Imperatoris,\u201d and \u201cHansellus et Gretella.\u201d Try this: \u201cErgo huffabo et puffabo et tuam domum inflabo!\u201d A hoot for young Latin students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/learn-language-from-fairy-tales-series-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/learn-language-from-fairy-tales-series-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/learn-language-from-fairy-tales-series.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David Burke\u2019s Learn Languages from Fairy Tales series (Slangman Publishing), familiar fairy tales such as <em>Cinderella <\/em>and <em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/em> begin in English, then segue into Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alyon.org\/litterature\/livres\/XVIII\/esprit_salon\/perrault\/\">Contes de Perrault<\/a> is an online collection of ten familiar fairy tales in French.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>POETRY<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flower-fairies-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flower-fairies-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flower-fairies-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flower-fairies-768x997.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flower-fairies.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The Fairy Flowers books by English illustrator Cicely Mary Barker (homeschooled because she had epilepsy) were first published in the 1920s. There were eight original volumes, each featuring fairy characters, detailed nature paintings, and poems. Titles include <em>Flower Fairies of Spring<\/em>, <em>Flower Fairies of Summer<\/em>, <em>Flower Fairies of Autumn<\/em>, and <em>Flower Fairies of Winter<\/em>. All are still in print (Frederick Warne &amp; Co.), and their popularity has led to many modern spin-offs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowerfairies.com\/\">Flower Fairies<\/a> for a gallery of Barker illustrations, a newsletter, activity sheets, and Flower-fairy-based games for kids.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>William Allingham\u2019s poem \u201cThe Fairies\u201d from <em>The Oxford Book of English Verse<\/em> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/101\/769.html\">here<\/a>. (\u201cUp the airy mountain\/Down the rushy glen\/We daren\u2019t go a-hunting\/For fear of little men.\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>William Butler Yeats\u2019s \u201cThe Stolen Child,\u201d his poem about a changeling, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/stolen-child\">here<\/a>. (\u201cCome away, O human child!\/To the waters and the wild\/With a faery, hand in hand\/For the world\u2019s more full of weeping than you can understand.\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For Anne Sexton\u2019s poem \u201cCinderella,\u201d see <a href=\"http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/poem\/8505487-Cinderella-by-Anne_Sexton\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>SHAKESPEARE\u2019S FAIRIES: PEASEBLOSSOM AND CO<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>There are many available editions of William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>, featuring a caste of lovers, actors, and fairies, among them, Titania, Oberon, and the mischievous Puck.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Burdett-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Burdett-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Burdett.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Lois Burdett\u2019s <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream for Kids<\/em> (Firefly Books, 1997) in the Shakespeare Can Be Fun series, presents the plot in rhyme, with terrific color illustrations by elementary-level kids. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Coville-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Coville-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-Coville.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Bruce Coville\u2019s 48-page prose retelling of <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em> (Dial, 1996), illustrated with watercolor paintings by Dennis Nolan (who does a particularly appealing Puck), simplifies the plot for ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-graphic-novel-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-graphic-novel-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-graphic-novel.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Illustrated by Kat Nicholson and Jason Cardy, <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream: The Graphic Novel<\/em> (Classic Comics, 2011) is the complete unabridged play, graphic-novel-style, for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-movie-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-movie-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-movie-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-movie-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/midsummer-night-movie.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Michael Hoffman\u2019s film version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0140379\/\"><em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/a> (1999) stars Kevin Kline as Nick Bottom, the hapless rustic who ends up with a donkey\u2019s head, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, and Stanley Tucci as a superb Puck. Rated PG-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Printable fairy puppets and coloring pages from <em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheemcfaddell.com\/stories\/bard\/BardPuppetPage.php\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>MAPPING FAIRYLAND<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-map-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-map-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-a-time-map.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By B.G. Hennessy, <em>The Once Upon a Time Map Book<\/em> (Candlewick, 2010) is a wonderful geographical tour of six fairy-tale kingdoms: the giant\u2019s realm from <em>Jack and the Beanstalk<\/em>; Snow White\u2019s Enchanted Forest, Alice\u2019s Wonderland, Peter Pan\u2019s Neverland, and Dorothy\u2019s Land of Oz. The maps are gorgeous. Fascinating and inspirational for imaginative mapmakers of all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From WikiHow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Draw-a-Map-of-an-Imaginary-Place\">How to Draw a Map of an Imaginary Place<\/a> has a list of helpful hints for magical map designers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middlestreet.org\/cabinet\/mapfairyland.htm\">\u201cAn ancient mappe of Fairyland\u201d<\/a> created by Bernard Sleigh in the 1920\u2019s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholastam.ca\/2011\/04\/18\/here-be-cartographers-reading-the-fantasy-map\/\">Here Be Cartographers<\/a> is a terrific essay on fantasy maps with many illustrations. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maphead-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maphead-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maphead.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Ken Jennings\u2019s <em>Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks<\/em> (Scribner, 2012) includes a chapter (\u201cLegend\u201d) on fantasy maps, some superb examples of which have been devised by kids. A great read; if you\u2019re not a map-lover already, this book will turn you into one. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>ACTIVITIES: Build a Castle! Write a Book! Make Cinderella\u2019s Pumpkin Tarts!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-feasts-2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-feasts-2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-feasts-2.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jane Yolen\u2019s <em>Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook<\/em> (Interlink, 2009) is a collection of twenty illustrated fairy tales, each accompanied by a related recipe (or recipes) and a scattering of food facts. \u201cCinderella,\u201d for example, is paired with pumpkin tarts, \u201cSnow White\u201d with baked apples, and \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood\u201d with a whole picnic feast. For ages 4-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-time-write-own-tale-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-time-write-own-tale-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/once-upon-time-write-own-tale.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Nancy Loewen in <em>Once Upon a Time: Writing Your Own Fairy Tale<\/em> (Picture Window Books, 2009) uses the story of Little Red Riding Hood to demonstrate the elements and structure of a classic fairy tale, along with suggestions for writing a tale of one\u2019s own. For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fractured-fairy-tale-plays-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fractured-fairy-tale-plays-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fractured-fairy-tale-plays-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fractured-fairy-tale-plays-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fractured-fairy-tale-plays.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Joan M. Wolf\u2019s <em>Cinderella Outgrows the Glass Slipper and Other Zany Fractured Fairy Tale Plays (<\/em>Teacher Resources, 2002) has costume and set suggestions, scripts, and accompanying book lists for five fractured fairy-tale plays. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\/holiday\/christmas\/crafts\/genius-and-fun-crafts-to-make-with-leftover-boxes\/\">great cardboard castle<\/a>!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>For free Reader\u2019s Theater scripts based on folk and fairy tales, see <a href=\"https:\/\/storiestogrowby.org\/readers-theater-play-scripts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/lesson-plan\/activity-plan-mixed-ages-fairytale-homes\">Fairytale Homes<\/a> is a lesson plan in which kids create houses for the Three Little Pigs, then build an entire Fairytale Village with houses and figures for varied fairy-tale characters. Also see The <a href=\"http:\/\/preschoolmommy.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/three-little-pigs-day-2.html\">Three Little Pigs<\/a> for pig and wolf finger puppet patterns and house-building suggestions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>FAIRY TALES AND MATH<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-wolf-magic-shapes-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-wolf-magic-shapes-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/three-pigs-wolf-magic-shapes.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Grace Maccarone\u2019s <em>Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes<\/em> (Cartwheel Books, 1998) is a twist on the pigs\u2019 story in which the three use tangrams to solve their problems. A set of cardboard tangram shapes is included with the book, or can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwire.com\/literature\/litgeometry.html\">Mathwire<\/a>, along with templates for solving the puzzles in the book. A fun way to learn geometric shapes for ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reds-maths-adv-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reds-maths-adv-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reds-maths-adv.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Lalie Harcourt and Ricki Wortzman\u2019s <em>Red Riding Hood\u2019s Math Adventure<\/em> (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001), Red Riding Hood sets off for Grandma\u2019s house with a basket of cookies \u2013 which she ends up sharing with other fairy-tale characters along the way. The book is an interactive exercise in subtraction: kids determine how many cookies to give to each, and calculate the remainder by means of a die-cut wheel. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jim-and-beanstalk-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jim-and-beanstalk-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jim-and-beanstalk.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Raymond Briggs\u2019s <em>Jim and the Beanstalk<\/em> (Puffin, 1997), Jim (in striped pajamas) climbs the beanstalk that he finds outside his bedroom window and meets an elderly giant in need of eyeglasses, false teeth, and a wig. Jim helps him solve his problems with the help of a measuring tape. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Core Knowledge, the study unit <a href=\"https:\/\/3o83ip44005z3mk17t31679f-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lets-Measure.pdf\">Let\u2019s Measure!<\/a> targeted at grade 3 includes a hands-on lesson featuring <em>Jim and the Beanstalk<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-916x1024.jpg 916w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-768x859.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-1374x1536.jpg 1374w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beanstalk-by-mccallum-1832x2048.jpg 1832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Anne McCallum\u2019s <em>Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant<\/em> (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2006) demonstrates concepts of ratio when 4-foot-tall Jack climbs the beanstalk and befriends Ray, a 20-foot-tall giant boy. Playing games together requires some size adjustments. For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/multiplying-menace-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/multiplying-menace-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/multiplying-menace.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Pam Calvert\u2019s <em>Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin<\/em> (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2006), it\u2019s been ten years since the Queen guessed the little man\u2019s name and now he\u2019s back, just in time for Prince Peter\u2019s birthday, peeved, demanding payment for all that straw spun into gold, and wielding a magic walking stick. The stick is capable of multiplying things by either whole numbers or fractions, and Rumpelstiltskin uses it to wreak havoc, increasing numbers of bugs, rats, mice, and the size of the king\u2019s nose, and decreasing the numbers of the palace guards and farmers\u2019 livestock. It\u2019s up to young Peter to nab the stick, correct the problem, and defeat Rumpelstiltskin once and for all. Clearly a vehicle for math, but more appealing than many. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math-1181x1536.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/funny-fairy-tale-math.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Betsy Franco\u2019s <em>Funny Fairy Tale Math<\/em> (Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2011)\u00a0contains 15 retellings of familiar fairy tales, with associated worksheets for practicing basic math skills. For example, kids do addition and subtraction exercises with Rapunzel\u2019s hair, identify number places with Rumpelstiltskin, calculate areas with the Three Pigs, and learn money skills with the Billy Goats Gruff, geometry with the Gingerbread Man, multiplication facts with Tom Thumb, and fractions with Goldilocks and the Bears. For ages 7-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Fairy tales as\u2026EQUATIONS! Check them out <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/fairy-tales-reduced-to-simple-math-equations-in-witty-toy-store-ads\/\">here<\/a>. (Invent some of your own.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>FAIRY TALES AND SCIENCE: Potions, Flying Carpets, and How to Fake a Fairy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Live Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/2278-science-fairy-tales.html\">The Science of Fairy Tales<\/a> is a reader-friendly look at the science of Rapunzel, The Little Mermaid, and 1001 Arabian Nights. Could the prince have climbed a rope of Rapunzel\u2019s hair? How would a scientist silence a mermaid? And can a carpet fly?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Physics and fairytales? See <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/04\/the-faulty-thermodynamics-of-c\/\">The Faulty Thermodynamics of Children\u2019s Stories<\/a> for a scientist\u2019s take on the temperature of the Three Bears\u2019 bowls of porridge and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/07\/fairy-tale-physics-2-spinning\/\">Spinning Gold<\/a> for a physicist\u2019s suggestions on just how a science-minded Rumpelstiltskin might have done it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceoutsidethebox.com\/More%20Fun%20With%20Science_files\/JCE1006p1479-1483.pdf\">The Chemical Wizardry of J.K. Rowling<\/a> from the <em>Journal of Chemical Education<\/em>is a detailed look at the chemistry behind such fairy-tale features as colored fires, magical inks, and transformations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-1158x1536.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing-1544x2048.jpg 1544w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheFairyRing.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mary Losure\u2019s <em>The Fairy Ring, Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World<\/em> (Candlewick, 2012), which takes place in England during World War I, is the (true) story of the Cottingley Fairy Photos, devised by two young girls who used photography to fool (among many others) Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-true-story-movie-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-true-story-movie-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fairy-tale-true-story-movie.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119095\/\"><em>FairyTale: A True Story<\/em><\/a> (1997) is a film version of the story of the Cottingley fairies, with Harvey Keitel as Houdini and Peter O\u2019Toole as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Discover the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mushroom-appreciation.com\/fairy-rings.html\">science behind fairy rings<\/a> \u2013 it has to do with the way mushrooms grow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>ABOUT FAIRY TALES: For Older Readers<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 1196px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/uses-of-enchantment-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/uses-of-enchantment-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/uses-of-enchantment.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in <em>The Uses of Enchantment<\/em> (Vintage, 2010) explains how fairy tales allow kids to deal with emotional dilemmas in their inner lives. This means don\u2019t soften it up; the bad stuff has to happen. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/witch-must-die-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/witch-must-die-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/witch-must-die.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Psychologist Sheldon Cashdan\u2019s <em>The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales<\/em> (Basic Books, 2000) points out that fairy tales were not meant originally as children\u2019s entertainment and analyzes familiar classics as they relate to the seven deadly sins. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale-1357x2048.jpg 1357w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/irresistible-fairy-tale.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Jack Zipes\u2019s <em>The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2012) is a 250-page account of the origin, evolution, and uses of fairy tales, with many fascinating examples.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">By Joan Acocella, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2012\/07\/23\/120723crbo_books_acocella\">Once Upon a Time<\/a> from the July 23, 2012 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em> magazine is a fascinating history of fairy tales and fairy tale scholarship.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 108px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 108px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 108px;\">J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s essay <a href=\"https:\/\/excellence-in-literature.com\/on-fairy-stories-by-tolkien\/\">On Fairy-Stories<\/a> defines \u201cfairy tale,\u201d and discusses the origins and value of fairy tales and fantasy for children and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/endicottstudio.typepad.com\/articleslist\/\">The Journal of the Mythic Arts<\/a> for an archive of informative articles on a wide range of fairy-tale topics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairy tale, it turns out, does not necessarily have to have fairies in it. 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