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.