fairy tales

The reader is invited to select several elements for their own fairy tale story.

"The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale. Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real--since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London... and a boy who shouldn't exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan--and herself"--Provided by publisher.

". . . Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales . . . in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on . . . examples, from classics such as 'Red Riding Hood,' 'Cinderella,' and 'The Sleeping Beauty,' the Grimm Brothers' 'Hansel and Gretel,' and Hans Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid,' to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's 'Snow White,' Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture"--Provided by the publisher.

A large collection of the most popular and beloved folktale and fairy tale classics written in the Ukrainian language.

In this modern version of "Cinderella," Chantella Verre is being treated like a servant by her oblivious father's new wife and her awful twins--but Chantella gets a chance to sing at the Next Teen Star audition when her former nanny shows up to set things right.

Retells the story of Belle, a French village girl who befriends a hideous beast and helps to put love in his heart.

When she and her new friends discover a portal to a fairy tale realm, Mihi Whan Park finally gets her shot at being a princess, but she must decide where her loyalties lie when her friends want to go home.

A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

A collection of six classic fairy tales, retold with rhymes and humor.

Presents a retelling of the classic tale of "Rumpelstiltskin" presented in a graphic novel format, in which a young woman promises a deceptive imp that she will give him her firstborn child if he will spin straw into gold for her.