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Entwines the classic fairy tale of the little match girl with a story of Frederik, whose mother is seamstress to the queen and who spends many evenings crafting a village in the attic of their small, cold home.

This illustrated picture book presents a retelling of the traditional fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. The story follows a clever girl whose father falsely claims she can spin straw into gold, leading the king to demand she prove the claim. Faced with an impossible task, the girl makes a bargain with a mysterious stranger, setting the stage for a reversal of expectations when the agreement comes due. Written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Carson Ellis,...

An illustrated collection of ten traditional fairy tales, including "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Snow White," "Tom Thumb," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Frog Prince," "Rumpelstilkins," "Cinderella," and "Three Pigs."

A freshly baked gingerbread cowboy escapes from the rancher's wife's kitchen and eludes his pursuers in this western United States version of the "Gingerbread Boy."

"This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms...

A beautiful and beloved princess, cursed by the one fairy who was not invited to her christening, pricks her finger on her sixteenth birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years.

Twenty classic Brothers Grimm stories get a gently modernized twist in Sandra Dieckmann's beautifully illustrated collection of treasured and lesser-known fairy tales. From internationally acclaimed creator Sandra Dieckmann comes a captivating collection of Grimms' fairy tales, accessibly written and illustrated with an eye to inclusivity. Enchanted forests, wild animals, powerful princesses, and brave heroes are given a lightly modern touch. Including...

"Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess,...

"Based on the wildly popular web series, F*cked Up Fairy Tales presents modern retellings of some of the strangest and darkest stories humans had the audacity to invent. Inspired by sources from around the world, "Cosbrarian" Liz Gotauco conjures gossipy animals, homicidal royals, doomed commoners, and shape-shifting beaux--all reckoning with complicated, adult problems that "Disney versions" have sanitized"-- Provided by publisher.

Princesses Lucinda and Arabella treat a talking frog like royalty in hopes he will turn into a prince, while fact-loving Martha is certain he is only a clever frog.