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Collections of Characters & Stories
Brown, Marc Tolon.
Pb BROWN Ten classic tales, including "The Emperor's New Clothes," Puss in Boots," and "The Frog Prince," are retold with Arthur the aardvark and his friends as the characters in the stories.
Ada, Alma Flor.
Pb Presents letters between such fairy tale characters as Goldilocks, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and the Three Pigs.
Rae, Jennifer.
Pb RAE Presents well-known fairy tales told from a dog's perspective and commented upon by wisecracking cats. Includes "Cindersmelly," "Jack Russell and the Beanstalk," and "The Doberman's New Clothes."
Elya, Susan Middleton
Pb ELYA Miguel and Maria meet various fairy tale characters as they walk to their aunt's house. Includes some Spanish words.
398.097 A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories compiled from folk sources around the country.
Ahlberg, Janet.
Pb Twelve of the pages have been made into envelopes and contain letters and other written material which help tell the story of the postman's delivery route one particular day.
Steer, Dugald.
Pb STEER Mother Pig reads bedtime stories to her little pigs, including "The Pig Prince," "The Ugly Pigling," "Piggerella," and "the Prince and the Porker."
Krensky, Stephen.
398.2 K A collection of seven stories based on favorite Mother Goose rhymes, including expanded versions of "Humpty Dumpty," "Little Miss Muffet," and "Old King Cole."
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J NEWFA 
398.2 ONCE Individual characters share their points of view on four familiar fairy tales, providing a new way of looking at each. The accompanying CD consists of celebrities such as Robin Williams and Callista Flockart reading the stories.
Little, Jean.
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O'Neal, Shaquille.
J ONEAL Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal relates updated versions of five fairy tales linked together, in each of which he plays a major role: Shaq and the beanstalk; Little Red Riding Shaq; Shaq and the three bears; Shaq's new clothes; and Shaq and the three billy goats gruff.
Scieszka, Jon.
j Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
Vande Velde, Vivian.
j Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Brooke, William J.
j The Emperor's clothes are news -- Rumpelstiltskin by any other name -- Gold in Locks -- Little Well-Read Riding Hood -- Teller's tale -- Tale of tellers.
Ahlberg, Allan.
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Gosling, Gabby
Pb GOSLI When "Mother Goose" tracks down the thief who stole the queen's tarts, she runs into several nursery rhyme characters.
Brooke, William J.
j Retells and continues the stories, from a contemporary perspective, of such classic tales as "The Frog Prince," "Snow White," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Sleeping Beauty."
Grindley, Sally.
Pb GRIND The reader is asked to identify fairy tale heroes and villains from clues in the text and illustrations.
Child, Lauren.
Pb CHILD A boy who loves books but has not always treated them well falls asleep and finds himself in his book of fairy tales, where his interaction with everyone from Goldilocks to Cinderella wreaks havoc.
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Vozar, David.
Pb A retelling in rap verse of "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
Ada, Alma Flor.
Pb Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
Ahlberg, Janet
PB AHLBE Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters.
Ada, Alma Flor
Pb ADA When the residents of Hidden Forest wake up and open their morning papers, they are in for a surprise. An enormous beanstalk has mysteriously sprouted outside of Jack Blake's house, and Jack is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Pinocchio and Half-chicken have set out on adventures of their own, and Tortoise and Hare are off to the races. Will they all find their happy endings? "Hidden Forest News" has got the scoops.
Sharratt, Nick
PB SHARR A unicorn playing a horn? An ogre doing yoga? Peek through each vellum page to guess what lies beyond in the foggy, foggy forest.
Catalanotto, Peter
Pb CATAL A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour.
Holub, Joan
PB HOLUB Presents zany versions of four familiar fairy tales, retold to feature hands, feet, and other body parts.
Sierra, Judy
Pb SIERR When B.B. Wolf, who now lives in Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to the library for a storybook tea, he is careful to follow the advice of his crocodile friend and impress everyone with how polite he can be.
Kloske, Geoffrey
Pb KLOSK A tired father takes only a few sentences to tell a number of classic tales in order to get the persistent listener to fall asleep.
Mann, Pamela
PB MANN A lonely, ugly frog is approached, and misunderstood, by many animals until one day a handsome prince understands why she croaks "Reddit! Reddit!"
Conway, David
PB CONWA Little Miss Muffet is bored. So she goes off to find a new nursery rhyme to be in. No rhyme seems quite right for Little Miss Muffet. Suddenly life with a scary little spider doesn't seem so bad after all.
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