Jacob Grimm
3) Cinderella
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Beautifully illustrated by Laura Filippucci, this classic is brought to new life in vivid ink and watercolor adding beauty and detail akin to a Currier and Ives painting. The classic tale of Cinderella is retold in this NorthSouth Books edition, with all of the details that make it authentic to the Brothers Grimm story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
10) Hans My Hedgehog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Riding a rooster and playing magical music on his fiddle, a young man, who is half hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
12) Little Red Cap
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A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
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"Young Randall dreams of adventures until one day he's sent off on a mission to discover the neighboring king's secret. When he returns, he's thrown in a dungeon and despairs until Princess Tilda -- the power behind the throne - entices him to compete for her hand. Courage, determination -- and Tilda's trust in him - toss him from one adventure to the next as he dives for a ring at the bottom of the ocean and searches for a Golden Apple from the Tree...
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"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...