characters in literature

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Fantasy baseball

2011
A twelve-year-old boy wakes up in Ever After, where he is recruited by Dorothy to play first base for the Oz Cyclones in the Ever After Baseball Tournament.

Waking Beauty

2008
Prince Charming tries all sorts of silly ways to wake Sleeping Beauty before he learns how he is really supposed to wake her up.

Villains

2006
Describes villians from literature, folklore, and history.

Who's afraid of the big bad book?

2003
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.

Jack's tale

1997
An author begins to write a fairy tale and finds that the main character, Jack, must be convinced to participate in the story and help rescue the princess.

The neat line

scribbling through Mother Goose
2005
A young scribble matures into a neat line, then wriggles into a book of nursery rhymes where he transforms himself into different objects to assist the characters he meets there.

Jack and Jill

2003
In this expanded version of the familiar nursery rhyme, Jack and his sister Jill are sent to get water from a well where they encounter a hungry crocodile.

Beware of the storybook wolves

2001
When two wolves escape one night from his fairy tale book and threaten to eat him, Herb enlists the reluctant help of Cinderella's fairy godmother.

Who were they really?

the true stories behind famous characters
1999
Tells the stories of the people and creatures that inspired some of the world's best-loved works of children's literature, including "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan," and others.

Babes in Toyland

1997
A retelling, based on the 1903 operetta, of the classic story of how two children from Mother Goose Land are pursued into the magical Toyland by an evil uncle who wants to kill them for their fortune.

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