Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most exciting tales for her granddaughter. However, the peace is shattered when soldiers of the emperor arrive and kidnap her grandmother. Pinmei quickly embarks on a journey to save...
Fairy Tales
- Author:Lin, GraceSummary:
- Author:Selfors, SuzanneSummary:
Fated to be the next Rapunzel, Holly O'Hair has long hair while her twin sister Poppy wears hers short, but when Holly's hair begins getting shorter as Poppy's grows longer, the sisters may have to reveal a secret about their fairytale...
- Author:AESOPSummary:
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The Fables of Aesop have been mostly considered, down the...
- Author:Colfer, ChrisSummary:
Tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the...
- Author:Snider, Sara C.Summary:
Abandoned as a baby, young Emelyn’s life as a housemaid in the quiet village of Fallow is unremarkable—and empty. That is, until a host of magical creatures arrives and inflicts terrible misdeeds on the townsfolk. Inexplicably immune to...
- Author:Petty, J. T.Summary:
When the rogue changeling Inky Mess tries to take over the Make Believe using the Forgetting Book, feisty fairy-killer Clemency Pogue must put aside worries about her parents and learn to communicate with some frightening bees in order...
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Grassina vies with her older sister, Chartreuse, to see who will inherit the family's talent for magic and become the Green Witch, while each ponders which prince will be at her side during her "happily ever...
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Buttercup loves Westley, but when he is captured by pirates, she is chosen by the evil Prince to be his bride, beginning a series of fantastic efforts to free her.
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess,...
- Author:MCKIE, AnneSummary:
Two favourite tales in one book, adapted from the original stories by Anne McKie.
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.
- Author:CRANE, WalterSummary:
The Frog Prince; Princess Belle-Etoile; Aladdin and the wonderful lamp.
- Author:LEWIS, NaomiSummary:
Retells thirteen fairy tales by the Danish author, including: The tinderbox, The steadfast tin soldier, The little match girl, and The snowman.
- Author:Andersen, Hans ChristianSummary:
Originally published in 1844 in one of C. A. Reitzel's New Fairy Tales collections, The Fir Tree is a moralistic tale that reveals the importance of appreciating what you have. In it, a young fir tree is so fixated on growing up that he...
- Author:Colfer, ChrisSummary:
The Land of Stories is no longer the joyful world Alex and Conner Bailey remember from their Wishing Spell adventure: The evil Enchantress, who cursed Sleeping Beauty, is back with a vengeance, and the fairy-tale world lives in fear....
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
Although a princess, Millie cannot keep herself from turning unexpectedly into a dragon, so she ventures off to the Frozen North to find the Blue Witch, who she hopes will help her learn to control her dragon magic.
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This delightful collection of children's stories is perfect listening for the whole family. Featured are four beloved stories to entice your imagination, including A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis...
- Author:Osborne, Mary PopeSummary:
A seamstress who kills seven flies with one blow outwits the king and, with the help of a kind knight, becomes a wise and kind queen. A reworking of the German tale "The Brave Little Tailor," one of Grimms' fairy tales....
- Author:Fanny E. CoeSummary:
A collection of myths, fairy tales and folk lore, by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe.
- Author:AnonymousSummary:
Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him. Only Scheherazade finds a way to keep herself alive: for 1,001 nights she tells the sultan a series of enchanting stories,...