| Cinderella's Wedding |
| by Paeony Lewis, illustrated by Ross Collins |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 5 - 9 published by Macdonald Young Books |
| There are only two weeks to go before the Prince and Cinderella are married. Cinderella's horrid sisters, Hiccup and Nosy, are busy plotting and planning ways to make the Prince fall in love with them (then they'll argue about which one of them will marry him). They send him love poems, bake him biscuits, try to put him off Cinderella by sending him a pair of her old smelly socks and they sing love songs outside the Palace windows. These plans all misfire amusingly but, although he cracks a tooth on a chocolate chip cookie, the royal dog benefits from the 'smelly socks' plan'. And Cinderella thinks her sisters are being kind and thoughtful! Then Nosy comes up with a brilliant plan which almost works! ...more 1326/650 |
| The Castle Awakes |
| by Paeony Lewis, illustrated by Georgie Birkett |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 5 - 9 published by Hodder & Stoughton Educational |
| Prince Fearless wakes Sleeping Beauty with a kiss and, then, she's Princess Rose again. Very soon, they're in love and making plans for their wedding. There are cobwebs and spiders everywhere (the Evil Fairy didn't put her sleeping spell on the spiders) and Princess Rose says the entire castle will have to be cleaned for the wedding. Eric, a little spider, hurries off to tell the big boss spider the bad news. The spiders want the castle for themselves and they make plans to "chase those pesky humans away". The spiders put their first plan in action and the king discovers Prince Fearless's secret; he's scared of spiders. He says he won't let his daughter marry a coward, but the queen reasons with him and the wedding's back on. The spiders go into action again, their plan results in the Evil Fairy turning Princess Rose into a tarantula spider at the wedding party. The curse will only be broken when Prince Fearless kisses his spider wife! But the prince faints when the queen carries the huge, hairy spider towards him. Eventually, with the king's help, Prince Fearless overcomes his fear and poor little Eric Spider is heartbroken for he'd fallen in love with Spider Rose. But all ends happily. ...more 1366/650 |
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| The Various |
| by Steve Augarde |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 8 - 15 published by David Fickling Books |
| Midge discovers an ancient, tangled wood near the bottom of one of her uncle's fields, in which she later realises is the home to all sorts of "little people" who she has to help survive. The story starts when she finds an injured flying, talking horse in her uncle's unused shed. ...more 1776/842 |
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| Nobody Rides the Unicorn |
| by Adrian Mitchell, illustrated by Stephen Lambert |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 4 - 7 published by Doubleday |
| The King of Joppardy is afraid that someone is trying to hurt him. His cunning advisor tells him that the horn of a unicorn can be used to protect him against poison. They need to find a quiet, gentle girl who will sing to the unicorn and make it come to her. Zoë is such a girl, so quiet in fact that she is considered a nobody. She does as they ask but when she realises why they really want the unicorn she knows she must place herself in terrible danger to save the beautiful creature. ...more 440/279 |
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| The Snow Dragon |
| by Vivian French, illustrated by Chris Fisher |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 4 - 7 published by Doubleday |
| Imagine a world, one half terribly hot the other freezing cold and between the two a small strip of land where the twolegs live. A magical book foresees then end of the Fire Dragons and tells them a twoleg will be the cause of their destruction. So they try to destroy the land of the twolegs, but one small orphan boy sets out to find the peace-loving Snow Dragons and beg their help to save his land. No-one has ever seen any Snow Dragons or knows if any are still alive, will the little orphan boy succeed or will he be led into danger by the mischievous book? ...more 439/280 |
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| The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales |
| by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 4 - 10 published by Viking |
| The author has taken well known fairy tales and twisted them to produce funny, ridiculous and sometimes just down right daft, stories! ...more 191/89 |
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| Katje The Windmill Cat |
| by Gretchen Woelfle, illustrated by Nicola Bayley |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 2 - 6 published by Walker Books Ltd |
| Katje is a happy cat who lives with her master in the windmill. Then one day he brings home a wife and suddenly Katje is not so welcome anywhere in the house and when a little baby arrives Katje moves out into the windmill. A terrible storm arises and Katje leaps into the baby's cradle before it is swept away by the flood waters. The cat is very brave and keeps the cradle from tuning over in the deep water and finally both cat and baby are rescued. ...more 1537/790 |
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| The Little Prince |
| by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupery |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 8 - 12 published by Mammoth |
| This parable tells the story of an air pilot who is forced to land in the Sahara and meets a little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells of his own planet with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower are unforgettable. ...more 56/65 |
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| The Little Mermaid |
| by Hans Christian Andersen |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 5 - 9 published by Ladybird Books |
| The timeless story about a mermaid who falls in love with a human and tries to win his love. ...more 47/58 |
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| Elf Hill |
| by Naomi Lewis, illustrated by Emma Chichester-Clark |  |
| Folk and Fairy Tales for ages 4 - 8 published by Frances Lincoln |
| This anthology presents rewritten versions of Hans Christian Anderson stories for very young children. ...more 453/290 |
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