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Beauty and the beast

2014
A tender girl is held captive by a mighty beast, who is himself held hostage by a spell. Both discover that true beauty and true love are not based on appearances, but come from within.

Hair today, gone tomorrow

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "Rapunzel" where Rapunzel wants to be like the other girls at school along with tips about organizing and producing the play..

Farmyard security

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "Chicken Little" where Henrietta Hen convinces the farm animals that the sky is falling and they are offered refuge by a sly wolf and his extreme couponing wife.

The princess and the frog

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "The Frog Prince," where a spoiled princess loses her favorite ball and a small frog offers to retrieve it for one kiss.

The Town mouse and the country mouse

based on a story by Aesop
2007
Toby Town Mouse loves to live well. So he's in for a surprise when he visits his country cousin - who lives in a hedge. Find out what happens in this lively retelling of Aesop's well-loved fable.

Boy, snow, bird

African-American Boy Novak marries into a family of light-skinned African Americans passing for white, raising issues of racism and identity for herself, her daughter, and step-daughter.

The poets' Grimm

20th century poems from Grimm fairy tales
2003
Presents more than 150 poems by twentieth-century writers, including Amy Lowell, Margaret Atwood, and Neil Gaiman, inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm.

King Arthur and his knights

1986
Recounts the tales of King Arthur and his knights, from the early prophecies of Merlin and Arthur's birth to the destruction of Camelot.

Briar Rose

2007
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.

Tristan & Iseult

1991
Retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristan and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.

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