One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale

Title: One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale.

Source: School Library Journal; Apr2008 Curriculum Connection, Vol. 54, p33-33, 1/8p

Abstract: The article reviews the audiobook "One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale," retold by Aaron Shepard, narrated by Ann Scobie, with a book illustrated by Gary Clement.

Review : A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had two eyes like ordinary people and a third in the middle of her forehead.

Rapunzel and Other Magic Fairy Tales

Title: Rapunzel and Other Magic Fairy Tales

Authors: Scheps, Susan

Source: School Library Journal; Jul2008, Vol. 54 Issue 7, p117-117, 1/4p

Abstract: The article reviews the book "Rapunzel and Other Magic Fairy Tales," selected by Henriette Sauvant.

Review : A childless couple who wanted a child lived next to a walled garden which belonged to an enchantress. The wife, as a result of her long-awaited pregnancy, noticed some rapunzel plant (or, in some versions of the story, radishes or lamb's lettuce), planted in the garden and longed for it to the point of death.

Wings: A Fairy Tale.

Title: Wings: A Fairy Tale

Authors: Phelan, Carolyn

Source: Booklist; 5/15/2008, Vol. 104 Issue 18, p60, 1p

Abstract: Reviews the book "A Fairy Tale: Wings" by E.D. Baker

Review: When Tamisin discovers real wings growing from her back she wants to know what is making her supposedly normal life so weird.

The Golden Slipper: An Ancient Egyptian Fairy Tale and Cinderella

Title: The Golden Slipper: An Ancient Egyptian Fairy Tale and Cinderella.

Authors: Williams, Bina

Source: Booklist; 4/1/2008, Vol. 104 Issue 15, p78, 1p

Abstract: Reviews the book "An Ancient Egyptian Fairy Tale and Cinderella: The Golden Slipper" by Saviour Pirotta

Review : Once there was a widower who for his second wife, married a proud and haughty woman. She had two daughters, who were equally vain. By his first wife, he had a beautiful young daughter who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales.

Title: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales & Fairy Tales

Authors: McBroom, Kathleen

Abstract: Reviews the book "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales" by Donald Haase

Review : This unique three-volume set is an important addition to folklore and fairy-tale studies as it offers for the first time an encyclopedic introduction to the scholarship of this flourishing field.

The Frog King

Author : Adam Davies

Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Trade; 1 edition (August 6, 2002)
Language: English

Review : the story seems to center on the relationship of a young couple, one half of that couple is incapable of expressing love. Much as she tries, the young lover cannot turn her frog into a prince.

Seven Ravens

Author : H. Sauvant

Paperback
Publisher: North-South (September 1, 1995)
Language: English

Review : a father's idle curse turns seven brothers into ravens, and their young sister, feeling responsible, sets out to find them.

Little Red-Cap

Author : Jacob Grimm

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: North-South Books (April 1, 1995)
Language: English

Review : It is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, after the red hooded cape or cloak she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother. A wolf wants to eat the girl but is afraid to do so in public.

The Night Before Christmas

Author : Clement Clarke Moore

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 29 pages
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation (August 2006)
Language: English

Review : "Halloween Town" is a dream world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, werewolves, and witches. Jack Skellington ("The Pumpkin King") leads them in a frightful celebration every Halloween, but he has grown tired of the same routine year after year.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Author : Jacob Grimm

Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 30, 2003)
Language: English

Review : The story is a simple one, of a poor shoemaker and his wife who suddenly find they are getting help from a mysterious source. They discover their helpers are little elves, whom are working long and hard to finish making shoes.

Rumpelstiltskin

Author: Brothers Grimm
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Puffin (September 1, 1996)
Language: English

Review : In order to make himself appear more important, a miller/commoner lied to the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a spinning wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed.

Beauty and the Beast

Author : Marianna Mayer

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (September 1987)
Language: English

Review : A rich merchant lived in a city with his three daughters, of whom the youngest is named Belle (French for "Beautiful") for being lovely and pure of heart. The merchant eventually loses all of his wealth, and he and his daughters must therefore live in the rural areas outside of the city.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Author : Steven Kellogg

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: HarperTrophy (April 24, 1997)
Language: English

Review : The story tells of a boy named Jack who was sent to the market one day instructed by his mother to sell their cow. As Jack proceeded to the market he met a stranger who offered to trade five "magic beans" for the cow. Jack accepted the trade and returned back home with the beans in his pocket.

Hansel and Gretel

Author : Rika Lesser
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile; 1st edition (February 1, 1999)
Language: English

review : Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter. Fearing starvation, the woodcutter's wife (variably called the children's mother or stepmother) convinces him to lead the children into the forest and abandon them there. Hansel and Gretel hear her plan and gather white pebbles from the front garden to leave themselves a trail home.

Sleeping Beauty

Author : Mahlon F. Craft

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 1, 2002)
Language: English

Review : At the christening of a long-wished-for princess, fairies invited as godmothers offered gifts, such as beauty, wit, and musical talent. However, a wicked fairy who had been overlooked placed the princess under an enchantment as her gift, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die.

The Three Little Pigs

Author : James Marshall

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (October 23, 2000)
Language: English

Review : Mother Pig sends her three little pigs out into the world to "seek their fortune".

The Ugly Duckling

Author : Hans Christian Andersen

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (March 24, 1999)
Language: English

Review : A mother duck hatches her eggs and, while most of her ducklings are normal, only one is grey, too large, and too clumsy to fit in among the others.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Author : Marianna Mayer
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: HarperTrophy (October 19, 1998)
Language: English

Review : Twelve princesses slept in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors were securely locked, but in the morning their shoes were found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night.

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Author : Jacob Grimm

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (November 1, 1987)
Language: English

Review : "Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White."

Cinderella

Author : Charles Perrault

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: North-South Books (April 1, 2002)
Language: English

Review : As Cinderella rides to the palace, her coach radiates light, and Cinderella herself is a blaze of color in her vibrant yellow gown in the brightly lit ballroom.