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Fairy Tales

Wonder Tales

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By Marina Warner

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Marina Warner introduces this collection of six seventeenth-century French fairy tales with an explanation of how the literary form was invented by French aristocrats during the reign of Louis XIV. Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A. S. Byatt and Terence Cave have written elegant transalations of “The White Cat”, “The Subtle Princess”, “Bearskin”, “The Counterfeit Marquis”, “Starlight” and “The Great Green Worm."
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Black Thorn, White Rose

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By Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

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Eighteen tales that remold favorite childhood stories into things darker and sexier, more resonant and appealing to adults. Tattercoats, the Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Rumplestiltskin, and the Bremen Town Musicians are among the characters whose stories get a revision in this collection.
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

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By William_Goldman

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The classic story of true love, sword-fights, revenge, death and miracles. Also available on audio (abridged) and video.

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Once Upon a Marigold

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By Jean Ferris

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A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

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Ash

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By Malinda Lo

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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

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Rapunzel : A Groovy Fairy Tale

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By Lynn Roberts

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In this updated version of the Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel has flaming red hair and is kept imprisoned by her Aunt Esme, a heartless school cafeteria worker, in a tenement apartment with a broken elevator.
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The Principal's New Clothes

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By Stephanie Calmenson

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In this version of the Andersen tale the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind, suit that will be visible only to intelligent people who are good at their jobs.
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The Wolf who Cried Boy

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By Bob Hartman

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Little Wolf is tired of eating lamburgers and sloppy does, but when he tricks his parents into thinking there is a boy in the woods, they could all miss a chance for a real feast.
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

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By A. Wolf as told to Jon Scieszka

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The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
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The Three Silly Girls Grubb

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By Jon and Ann Hassett

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In this revision of the familiar tale, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," three sisters manage to outwit Ugly-Boy Bobby who spends his time under the bridge they must cross on their way to school.
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