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The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Includes Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal acceptance speech, Q&A with Kate DiCamillo, and Q&A with Timothy Basil Ering.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An interactive reading experience that allows young ones to read together with an adult, answer questions within the text, and play with activities suggested at the end of the story. A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox
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English
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When the King of Ireland's son sets out to find the Enchanter of the Back-Lands, he meets the Enchanter's daughter Fedelma and is betrothed to her; but he loses her and searches in the Land of the Mist, the Town of the Red Castle, and many different worlds before he finds her.
7) Ash
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.
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Series
The Borrowers volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside--cows, moths, field mice, cold weather--is a life-threatening danger for the tiny Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and learn how to survive in the wild, Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, discover that the world...
Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Follows Frog (who is not a prince) as he hops out of his own story and joins cousins Jack and Jill to seek a magic mirror, encoutering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on Mother Goose rhymes and fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Andersen.
11) Briar Rose
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Series
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca searches for Briar Rose's castle in the sleeping woods and finds the secret of her grandmother's past rooted in Poland and the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
13) The tomten
Author
Publisher
Putnam & Grosset Group
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold, snowy night, a Swedish troll walks around a farm comforting the animals with the promise that spring will come.
Author
Series
Enchanted forest chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queen Cimorene turns to her friends Morwen, Telemain, and Kazul for help when troublesome wizards make their way back into the Enchanted Forest and begin to soak up its magic.
16) Taran Wanderer
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The fourth book of the Prydain cycle tells of the adventures that befell Taran when he went in search of his birthright and the truth about himself. Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess Fflewddur Fflam,...
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School for Good and Evil volume 1
Language
English
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Description
This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good...
19) The heir
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016, 2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He's investigating the murder of two children, Annie...
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