Toads and Diamonds

Toads and Diamonds
Author:
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this version of the Perrault tale, two sisters' treatment of a three-headed troll is appropriately repaid. Full-color illustrations.

A Wolf at the Door

A Wolf at the Door
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442460393

These are not your mother's fairy tales... Did you ever wonder how the dwarves felt after Snow White ditched them for the prince? Do you sometimes wish Cinderella hadn't been so helpless and petite? Are you ready to hear the Giant's point of view on Jack and his beanstalk? Then this is the book for you. Thirteen award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers offer up their versions of these classic fairy tales as well as other favorites, including The Ugly Duckling, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, and more. Some of the stories are funny, some are strange, and others are dark and disturbing -- but each offers something as unexpected as a wolf at the door.

The Fairies

The Fairies
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2005-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9789583017797

Jennifer Murdley's Toad

Jennifer Murdley's Toad
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547540965

In this magical fantasy adventure by the award-winning author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, a talking toad takes a girl on a wild ride. Jennifer Murdley has always wanted to be pretty. That’s why she’s so surprised to leave Mr. Elives’s magic shop with a particularly ugly toad. As her worst enemy says, “A toad for a toad.” But this toad can talk. And what it has to say sets Jennifer off on a journey that leads her into the company of the Immortal Vermin and straight to the Beauty Parlor of Doom . . . where she comes face-to-face with her deepest fears and dreams. Jennifer Murdley would give anything to be beautiful. But sometimes anything is too high a price to pay. “Endlessly funny . . . . A roller-coaster ride of a story, full of humor and even wisdom.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fast-moving with slapstick humor . . . . Recommended.” —Horn Book

The Rough-Face Girl

The Rough-Face Girl
Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1992-04-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524740780

From Algonquin Indian folklore comes one of the most haunting, powerful versions of the Cinderella tale ever told. In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario lived an invisible being. All the young women wanted to marry him because he was rich, powerful, and supposedly very handsome. But to marry the invisible being the women had to prove to his sister that they had seen him. And none had been able to get past the sister's stern, all-knowing gaze. Then came the Rough-Face girl, scarred from working by the fire. Could she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters had failed?

Favorite Fairy Tales

Favorite Fairy Tales
Author: M. C. Waldrep
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486498786

Drawn from the rainbow of Andrew Lang’s “color” fairy tale books, this charming anthology features more than 25 traditional tales. Original black-and-white artworks by H. J. Ford illustrate stories of “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rapunzel,” “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and other classic fables. Dover Original.

The Fairy's Mistake

The Fairy's Mistake
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1999
Genre: Braille books
ISBN: 9780439179119

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.

Diamonds and Toads

Diamonds and Toads
Author: Ellen Schecter
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780553373394

After showing kindness to a fairy in disguise, Claire receives the gift of flowers and jewels that fall from her mouth when she speaks, but her bitter sister suffers a less pleasant fate.

The Fairy's Return

The Fairy's Return
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062253573

Ever since Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine introduced the magical village of Snettering-on-Snoakes in the faraway Kingdom of Biddle, young readers have been laughing their way through her hilarious retellings of famous and not-so-famous fairy tales. Now, for the first time, the six beloved Princess Tales are together in one magnificent volume: The high jinks begin in The Fairy's Mistake, which pokes fun at a meddlesome fairy whose plans for good go terribly awry. In The Princess Test, the author spoofs the notion that a pea can prove a person's pedigree. Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep features a genius of a princess, a hundred years of snooze, two princes, and a flock of balding sheep! Cinderella is a boy in Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, and the glass slipper is a glass hill. In For Biddle's Sake, Parsley tries to forget her beloved prince and get used to life as a Biddlebum Toad. The road to happily-ever-after isn't easy when a baker's son and a princess fall in love in The Fairy's Return. Elements of the classics are woven into these not-so-typical retellings of "Toads and Diamonds," "The Princess and the Pea," "Sleeping Beauty," "The Princess on the Glass Hill," "Puddocky," and "The Golden Goose." The fresh and funny twists on favorite fairy tales will win the hearts and capture the imaginations of young readers everywhere.

Toads and Diamonds

Toads and Diamonds
Author: Charlotte S. Huck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN: 9780688136819

Two step-sisters receive appropriate gifts for their actions: one's words are accompanied by flowers and jewels, the others by toads and snakes. 4 yrs+