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Fifty fabulous fables

beginning readers theatre
1997
A collection of theater scripts based on traditional fables from around the world and grouped according to reading levels.

Fractured fairy tales

1997
Collection of humorous stories in which traditional fairy tales transformed into wacky parables filled with puns, wit and irony, and twisted to have silly and unexpected endings.

Roald Dahl's Revolting rhymes

1995
Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

retold out of the old Romances
1993
A retelling of the story of the boy fated to be the "true-born King of Britain," covering his glorious reign and his tragic, yet triumphant, passing.

Mary had a little jam, and other silly rhymes

2004
A collection of humorous retellings of classic nursery rhymes by contemporary children's authors.

The Big book of dramatized classics

25 adaptations of favorite novels, stories, and plays for stage and round-the-table reading
1993
Presents stage adaptations of "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Wizard of Oz," "Wuthering Heights," "Treasure Island," Alice in Wonderland," "Anne of Green Gables," "Moby Dick," "Great Expectations," and others.

Wicked jealous

2012
Hoping to remake herself to find happiness, Simone Walker loses weight, develops a new image, and moves in with seven college guys who are more than happy to help her during her quest. With her wicked stepmother hiding in the wings, however, Simone finds that people aren't always what they seem and has a harder time than she imagined finding someone to love her for who she really is.

The crystal cave

1996
Follows Merlin, the magician, from his childhood in the court of the King of Wales until Arthur's birth.

Enchantment

1999
American graduate student Ivan Smetski, haunted by the vision of a sleeping princess he believes he saw as a ten-year-old boy while exploring the Carpathian forest, returns to his native land to investigate and, with one kiss, is drawn into a world that vanished a thousand years earlier.

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