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1) Cinderella
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Read along with Disney! This is the story of Ella. When she was a little girl, her mother and father taught her to be kind. They taught her to be good. But one sad day her mother passed away. When her father remarried, her new stepfamily was mean to her. They called her Cinderella since they made her sleep by the fire. But her kindness won the heart of a man named Kit. Ella hoped to see him at the royal ball. But Ella's stepfamily was jealous of Ella's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sleeping Beauty's enchanted slumber has captivated readers' hearts for centuries. Now brought luminously to life by K. Y. Craft's lavish paintings, this new edition of a timeless favorite is sure to enchant readers both young and old. Fairy tale lovers have been eagerly awaiting Craft's next magical romance since the release of her Cinderella. With illustrations inspired by the magnificent style of Baroque painters, the sumptuous color and exquisite...
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Gretchen Schultz is professor of French studies at Brown University. Her recent books include Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France and An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from France. Lewis Seifert is professor of French studies at Brown University. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715 and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Readers will be delighted by this exciting retelling of the classic story of a little girl in a red hood. The book features lessons and activities that encourage readers to practice their phonics skills while enjoying this familiar fairy tale. Charming illustrations paired with accessible text help readers learn to identify distinct sounds and understand the different phonemes they are taught in school. This informative and exciting volume will encourage...
5) Goldilocks
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Readers will be thrilled with this charming retelling of the memorable story of Goldilocks. The classic tale is retold to focus on distinct sounds and encourage readers to practice key phonics concepts, such as word-building and sounding out words. Colorful illustrations support the text and aid in the understanding of the narrative. Key concepts are reinforced by activities that encourage readers to look to the illustrations to spot items with certain...
6) Snow White
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A beloved fairy tale gets a new spin in this unique retelling of a classic story. This engaging book encourages readers to practice and refine their phonics skills, while enjoying the familiar story of Snow White. The story is retold to focus on distinct sounds and reinforce the different phonemes taught in early childhood education curriculum. Activities support readers in practicing word-building skills and learning to sound out different words....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of a familiar fairy tale, readers will have fun refining their phonics skills. This retelling of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs will promote and foster an understanding of key phonics concepts. Charming illustrations and accessible text support readers in practicing sounding out words and using their word-building skills. Readers will learn to identify distinct sounds and become familiar with the different phonemes covered...
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Michael Rosen is professor of children's literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of more than 140 children's books, he is also known for his work as a broadcaster, political columnist, and scriptwriter, and was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009. His many books for adults include So They Call You Pisher!, Alphabetical, and The Disappearance of Émile Zola. He lives in London.
A collection of political tales-first published...
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English
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In this beloved collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, children will be entranced by whimsical and memorable classic rhymes! This title, retold in English and Spanish, is an excellent skill-builder for reading and foreign language comprehension. Between the covers of this 32-page book is a classic tale of magic, imagination, and inspiration that delights children again and again. The stories in this series capture children's interest and spark their imagination...
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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824—1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred,...
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(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity — yet, there were barely any stories in my heart.
Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part...
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Cristina Mazzoni is the Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Vermont. Her many books include Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy and She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon. She lives in Burlington, Vermont. Instagram @artsbymcm
A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first time
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy...
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English
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Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women authors, who used the genre of the fairy tale to address issues such as class, race, and female agency. These shared themes crossed national borders are due to both...
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Juwen Zhang is professor of Chinese Studies at Willamette University, fellow of the American Folklore Society, and current president of the Western States Folklore Society. Jack Zipes is the editor of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton).
A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time...
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What do you get when you take the high tech/low life settings of cyberpunk and sprinkle them with the magic and possibilities of fairy tales? Trolls under teleportation bridges, masquerades held in virtual reality, princely avatars, giants and dwarves alongside hackers and androids. From retellings of traditional tales such as Rumpelstiltskin, in which a young woman is tasked with writing code instead of spinning gold, to original tales like the changeling-inspired...
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