Bibliography
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F NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Beast. 2nd Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2004,
c2000.
Presents a retelling of the classic story, "Beauty and the Beast", set in Persia, where
Orasmyn, heir to the throne, is turned into a beast after making a foolish choice, and must
find a woman to love him to undo the curse.
398.2 MCK
McKinley, Robin. Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast. [1st ed.]. New
York : Harper & Row, c1978.
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through
her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an
ugly beast.
398.2 MCK
McKinley, Robin. Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast. N.Y. :
HarperTrophy, 1993, c1978.
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and, through her
love, releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an
ugly beast.
YA F PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Between the lines : a novel. 1st Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler
Books/Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria,
2012.
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of
his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver
and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
YA F MAR
Martin, Rafe, 1946-. Birdwing. New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2005.
Prince Ardwin, known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers turned into swans by
their stepmother, is unable to complete the transformation back into human form, so he
undertakes a journey to discover whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to
him.
VID F BRA Brave. [Widescreen format]. Burbank, CA : Disney :, c2012.
Voices: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie
Coltrane. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that
brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her
archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
F YOL
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York : Tom Doherty, 1992.
Uses the fairy-tale form to write about all the ramifications of the Holocaust.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. Cinderellis and the glass hill. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :
HarperCollins, c2000.
In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, a lonely young farm lad uses his unusual
inventive ability to pass a nearly impossible test and win the hand of the neighboring
princess.
SC VEL
Vande Velde, Vivian. Cloaked in red. 1st ed. New York : Marshall Cavendish, c2010.
The red cloak -- The red riding hood doll -- Little Red Riding Hood's family -- Granny
and the wolf -- Deems the wood gatherer -- Why Willy and his brother will never amount
to anything -- The little red headache -- Little Red Riding Hood's little red riding hood. A
collection of eight short stories that retell the tale of Little Red Riding Hood from a
different viewpoint.
F WRE
Wrede, Patricia C, 1953-. Dealing with dragons. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1990.
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and
soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal
away the dragons' kingdom.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella enchanted. New York : HarperTrophy, 1998, c1997.
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse
that forces her to obey any order given to her.
F BUC
Buckley, Michael. The fairy-tale detectives. New York : Amulet Books, c2007.
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that
they have always believed to be dead.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. The fairy's mistake. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for
good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is
more pleasing than her reward.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. The fairy's return. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins, c2002.
The good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess, with the help of a fairy and a
magic goose.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. For Biddle's sake. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins, c2002.
In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been
transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical abilities to
charm a prince into marriage.
F BER
Berenzy, Alix. A Frog Prince. Owlet ed. New York : H. Holt, 1991.
Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a
more suitable mate.
E SCI
Scieszka, Jon. The frog prince, continued. New York : Viking, 1991.
After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the
Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.
SC YOL
Yolen, Jane. The girl who cried flowers, and other tales. New York : Crowell, [1974].
The girl who cried flowers -- Dawn-strider -- The weaver of tomorrow -- The lad who
stared everyone down -- Silent Bianca.
YA F DOK
Dokey, Cameron. Golden : a retelling of "Rapunzel" Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon
Pulse, 2007, c2006.
Sixteen-year-old Rapunzel, abandoned by her mother and raised by the sorceress
Melisande, agrees to help free Melisande's daughter, Rue--whom Rapunzel did not know
existed--from a wizard's curse, but bitter feelings rise between the girls and threaten to
leave Rue cursed forever.
F KIN
Kindl, Patrice. Goose chase. New York : Puffin Books, 2002.
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl
endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning her
true identity.
YA F HAL
Hale, Shannon. The goose girl. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2003.
Princess Anidori, on her way to marry a prince she has never met, is betrayed by her
guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can
reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
Hale, Shannon. The goose girl. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2005, c2003.
Princess Anidori, on her way to marry a prince she has never met, is betrayed by her
guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can
reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
F GID
Gidwitz, Adam. The Grimm conclusion. New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, an
imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2013].
"Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together
throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories"--Provided by
publisher.
F SHU
Shulman, Polly. The Grimm Legacy. New York : Putnam's, c2010.
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "NewYork Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm
Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of
frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
YA F WER
Werlin, Nancy. Impossible : a novel. New York : Dial Books, c2008.
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil
Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her
daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.
F GID
Gidwitz, Adam. In a glass Grimmly : companion to A tale dark & Grimm. New York,
N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2013.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror,
encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part
on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
F DIT
DiTerlizzi, Tony. Kenny & the dragon. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, c2008.
Kenny Rabbit tries to save his friend, the dragon, after he is labeled a community nuisance
by the simple people of Roundbrook village, who arrange for the creature to be fought by
St. George.
YA CRO
Cross, Sarah. Kill me softly. This pbk. ed. New York : Egmont USA, 2013.
When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where
Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.
F PAT
Paterson, Katherine. The king's equal. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins, c1992.
In order to wear the crown of the kingdom, an arrogant young prince must find an equal in
his bride. Instead, he finds someone far better than he.
YA F FLI
Flinn, Alex. A kiss in time. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day
American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home,
where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
YA F FIN
Flinn, Alex. A kiss in time. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2010, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her
awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to
win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
F MAS
Mass, Wendy, 1967-. The last present. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2013.
Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister
Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in
time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have
protected her.
F BAR
Barraclough, Lindsey. Long Lankin. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press,
2012, c2011.
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an
isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil
and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before
it is too late.
F NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. The magic circle. New York : Puffin, 1995, c1993.
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by
evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years
later.
F BAK
Baker, E. D. Once upon a curse. New York : Bloomsbury, 2006, c2004.
Princess Emma is determined, with the help of her favorite bat, Li'l, and some long-long
ancestors to reverse the curse put upon her lineage by an angry fairy.
F FER
Ferris, Jean. Once upon a Marigold. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, c2002.
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll
who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot
against her and her father.
F KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1911-. The ordinary princess. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday, c1984.
At her christening a princess is given the gift of "ordinariness" by a fairy, and the
consequences of that eventually take her to a nearby palace where, having run away to
become a fourteenth assistant kitchen maid, she meets the prince for her.
P 813 GAR
Garner, James Finn. Politically correct bedtime stories. New York : Macmillan, c1994.
Fairy tales retold in keeping with today's society. The tales are totally free from bias and
purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past.
F MAC
MacDonald, George, 1824-1905. The princess and Curdie;. New York, : Macmillan,
[1954].
A miner's son is entrusted with the weighty task of saving the king, the princess, and
consequently the kingdom. He is directed in his efforts by a mysterious fairy queen who
provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him.
YA F HAR
Harrison, Mette Ivie, 1970-. The princess and the hound. 1st ed. New York : Eos, c2007.
Prince George, heir to the kingdom and possessor of the forbidden magic that allows him
to speak with animals, finds his strange ability comes in handy when he sets out to win the
heart of Beatrice, a princess who has grown up with only her dog Marit for
companionship.
F HAS
Haskell, Merrie. The princess curse. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011.
Thirteen-year-old Reveka, an herbalist's apprentice in the Middle Ages, attempts to break
the mysterious curse on the princesses of Sylvania and instead discovers a door to the
Underworld. Based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. Princess Sonora and the long sleep. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c1999.
In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times
smarter than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the
spindle.
F LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. The princess test. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
In this humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea,"
Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to prove that she is a true princess and win
the hand of Prince Nicholas.
F MAS
Mass, Wendy, 1967-. Rapunzel, the one with all the hair. New York : Scholastic, [2006],
c2005.
Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other
by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck,
conditions change for them both.
F COO
Coombs, Kate. The runaway princess. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a baby dragon and
escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to gain her hand in marriage through a
contest arranged by her father, the king.
F WRE
Wrede, Patricia C, 1953-. Searching for dragons. New York : Scholastic, 1992, c1990.
With the aid of King Mandanbar, Princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves
the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked wizards.
F TOW
Townson, Hazel. The secret room. Minneapolis : Stone Arch Books, 2006, c2004.
When Adam enters a secret cupboard at his school, he is transported through time to 1942,
into the middle of a World War II air raid.
SC CHR
Chrisman, Arthur. Shen of the Sea : Chinese stories for children. New York : Dutton, c.
1925. 1953.
These sixteen short stories, written for reading aloud or for storytelling are strong in
Chinese flavor and humor.
YA F MCK
McKinley, Robin. Spindle's end. New York : Putnam's Sons, c2000.
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and
then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country,
unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
F SLE
Sleator, William. Strange attractors. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1990.
Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two
desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different
timeline.
F GID
Gidwitz, Adam. A tale dark & Grimm. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books,
c2010.
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales,
encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other
helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and
Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and
his three golden hairs.
P 813 VAN
Vande Velde, Vivian. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird. 1st ed. San
Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1995.
Straw into gold -- Frog -- All points bulletin -- The granddaughter -- Excuses -- Jack -And now a word from our sponsor -- The bridge -- Rated PG-13 -- Mattresses -- Twins -Evidence -- Beast and Beauty. 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.
F WRE
Wrede, Patricia C, 1953-. Talking to dragons. New York : Scholastic, 1992,c1985.
Queen Cimorene sends her sixteen-year-old son Daystar into the Enchanted Forest with
the only weapon that can combat an evil wizard's magic in an effort to restore the balance
of power in the kingdom.
F FER
Ferris, Jean, 1939-. Thrice upon a Marigold. Boston ; : Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2013.
When Princess Poppy, the daughter of Queen Marigold and King Christian of ZandelphiaBeaurivage, is kidnapped by the kingdom's former torturer-in-chief and poisoner-in-chief,
a ragtag group sets out to rescue her.
YA F BLA
Black, Holly. Tithe : a modern faerie tale. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she
herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
F YOL
Yolen, Jane. Troll Bridge : a rock 'n' roll fairy tale. 1st ed. New York : Starscape, 2006.
Sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira is transported to a strange and mystical
wilderness, where she finds herself in the middle of a deadly struggle between a magical
fox and a monstrous troll.
SC DAT
Troll's eye view : a book of villainous tales. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2009.
Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales--evil, no two
ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In this anthology for younger
readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife (from Jack and the Beanstalk), Rumpelstiltskin,
the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and more.
F GEO
George, Jessica Day, 1976-. Tuesdays at the castle. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Princess Celie loves Tuesdays at Castle Glower, because every Tuesday the castle adds a
new room, a turret, or sometimes a whole new wing, and Celie likes to map the changes to
the castle, but when her parents, King and Queen Glower are taken captive, it falls to
Celie and her knowledge of the castle to defend their home and save the kingdom.
F GEO
George, Jessica Day, 1976-. Tuesdays at the castle. Pbk. ed. New York : Bloomsbury,
2012, c2011.
Princess Celie loves Tuesdays at Castle Glower, because every Tuesday the castle adds a
new room, a turret, or sometimes a whole new wing, and Celie likes to map the changes to
the castle, but when her parents, King and Queen Glower are taken captive, it falls to
Celie and her knowledge of the castle to defend their home and save the kingdom.
F GRA
Gray, Margaret. The ugly princess and the wise fool. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2002.
When plain-looking Princess Rose longs for the beauty to snare handsome Prince Parsley,
and the wise fool Jasper longs to restore wisdom to the kingdom, they end up working
together and find they must face the magical Godmother Board of Trustees.
SC BRO
Brooke, William J. Untold tales. New York : HarperCollins, 1992.
A prince in the throat -- A beauty in the beast -- A fate in the door -- A tale untold. 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.".
F LIN
Lin, Grace. Where the mountain meets the moon. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and
Co. Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a
dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing
life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
F THU
Thurber, James, 1894-1961. White deer,. Harcourt, 1945.
Fairy tale of kings, a princess, deer, wizards and dwarfs.
YA F HOL
Holder, Nancy. Wicked. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.
Witch -- Curse. Presents the first two novels in the "Wicked" series, "Witch", where Holly
Cathers is sent to live with her aunt's family after the death of her parents and must put
aside her grief to save herself and her twin cousins when they are drawn into a centuriesold battle between two families of witches and warlocks, and "Curse", in which Holly
discovers some clues to her past and the deaths of her parents when she attempts to rescue
her enemy Jer.
YA F GRU
Gruber, Michael, 1940-. The witch's boy. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2005.
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise
him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who
have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
SC WOL
A wolf at the door : and other retold fairy tales. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York :
Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001.
The Months of Manhattan / Delia Sherman -- Cinder elephant / Jane Yolen -- Instructions
/ Neil Gaiman -- Mrs. Big / Michael Cadnum -- Falada / Nancy Farmer -- A Wolf at the
door / Tanith Lee -- Ali Baba and the forty aliens / Janeen Webb -- Swans / Kelly Link -The Kingdom of Melting Glances / Katherine Vaz -- Hansel's eyes / Garth Nix -Becoming Charise / Kathe Koja -- The Seven stage a comeback / Gregory Maguire -- The
twelve dancing princesses / Patricia A. McKillip. Presents thirteen short fantasy stories
based on classic fairy tales, written by a variety of authors including Jane Yolen, Neil
Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and others.
F NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Zel. New York : Puffin, 1998, c1996.
Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of
view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of
the characters.