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1) Rumpelstiltskin

Author

Zelinsky, Paul O

Language

English

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Caldecott Medal Winners

Description

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A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

2) Impossible escape: a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe

Author

Sheinkin, Steve

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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Youth Media Awards 2024

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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"From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust-one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--

3) Hansel and Gretel

Author

Lesser, Rika

Language

English

Description

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A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

4) Grimms' fairy tales

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Series

Puffin classics
Splendor book

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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An illustrated collection of fifty-two traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.

5) Germany

Author

Rechner, Amy

Series

Blastoff! discovery. Country profiles

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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"Engaging images accompany information about Germany. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--

6) Little Red Riding Hood

Author

Hyman, Trina Schart

Pub. Date

[1983]

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

7) Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs

Author

Rylant, Cynthia

Pub. Date

2009.

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm

Language

English

Description

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Retells the story of a princess who escapes her wicked stepmother by hiding out in the home of seven hospitable dwarfs.

8) Germany

Author

Blashfield, Jean F

Series

Enchantment of the world. Second

Pub. Date

2013.

Physical Desc

144 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Describes the geography, history, economy, language, religions, culture, people, plants, and animals of Germany.

9) Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs: a read-aloud storybook

Author

Baker, Liza

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

64 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Description

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A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs.

10) The princess and the frog: adapted from The Frog King and Iron Heinrich by the Brothers Grimm

Author

Isadora, Rachel

Pub. Date

[1989]

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm

Language

English

Description

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As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

11) Little Red Riding Hood

Author

Moore, Maggie

Series

Read-it! readers. Blue level

Pub. Date

2002.

Physical Desc

30 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

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A retelling of the folktale in which a little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.

12) Four good friends

Author

Hillert, Margaret

Series

Follett just beginning-to-read book

Language

English

Description

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A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in which four animal friends, in search of a place to live, scare robbers from a house in the forest and decide to live together. Includes reading activities.

13) Hansel and Gretel

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Language

English

Description

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A simplified version of the traditional tale in which Hansel and Gretel become lost in the woods and find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

14) The twelve dancing princesses

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Language

English

Description

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To win a bride and a kingdom, a soldier endeavors to discover why the dancing shoes of the king's twelve daughters are worn to pieces every morning.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Description

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Simpleton's generosity helps him gain a princess for his bride.

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1) Rumpelstiltskin

2) Impossible escape: a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe

3) Hansel and Gretel

4) Grimms' fairy tales

5) Germany

6) Little Red Riding Hood

7) Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs

8) Germany

9) Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs: a read-aloud storybook

10) The princess and the frog: adapted from The Frog King and Iron Heinrich by the Brothers Grimm

11) Little Red Riding Hood

12) Four good friends

13) Hansel and Gretel

14) The twelve dancing princesses

15) The annotated Brothers Grimm

16) Sleeping Beauty

17) The Bremen town musicians

18) Snow-White and the seven dwarfs

19) Snow White

20) The golden goose

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