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  A Tale Dark & Grimm: Book 1

  A Tale Dark and Grimm

  by Adam Gidwitz

  In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take... (more)
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  Fairytale Retellings: Book 2

  Sweetly

  by Jackson Pearce

  SWEETLY is a modernization of Hansel and Gretel and a companion book to SISTERS RED.Twelve years ago, Gretchen, her twin sister, and her brother went looking for a witch in the forest. They found something. Maybe it was a witch, maybe a monster, they aren’t sure—they were running too fast to tell. Either way, Gretchen’s twin sister was never seen again.Years later, after being thrown out of... (more)
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  The Magic Circle

  by Donna Jo Napoli

  A midwife-sorceress, tricked by the devil's minions, loses her gifts, is forced to become a witch, and lives her life alone in the forest, until two children--named Hansel and Gretel--wander by. Reprint. SLJ. PW. AB.
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  An Unfortunate Fairy Tale: Book 1

  UnEnchanted

  An Unfortunate Fairy Tale

  by Chanda Hahn

  Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated, that is until she saves her crushes life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a... (more)
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  The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children

  by Keith McGowan

  When Sol and Connie Blink move to Grand Creek, one of the first people to welcome them is an odd older woman, Fay Holaderry, and her friendly dog, Swift, who carries a very strange bone in his mouth. Sol knows a lot more than the average eleven-year-old, so when he identifies the bone as human, he and Connie begin to wonder if their new neighbor is up to no good. In a spine-tingling adventure that makes them... (more)
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  Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?

  And Other Notorious Nursery Tale Mysteries

  by David Levinthal

  Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora. When... (more)
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  Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

  by Vivian Vande Velde

  Welcome to the fairy-tale world where Hansel and Gretel are horrible children who deserve to be baked and where Beauty is dismayed when her beloved Beast turns human. In the realm of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, when the sky really does fall, Chicken Little becomes the leader of a religious movement, gets her own TV show, collects millions of dollars to build a theme park, and then makes off with the... (more)
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  Troll's Eye View

  A Book of Villainous Tales

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales--evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's new anthology for younger readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumplestiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Holly... (more)
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  An Echo Falls Mystery: Book 3

  Into the Dark

  by Peter Abrahams

  In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there. An idyllic day of snowshoeing on Grampy's land with Joey Strade turns out to be less than idyllic when thirteen-year-old super sleuth Ingrid Levin-Hill stumbles upon a body lying in the snow. This discovery sends the town of Echo Falls into a tailspin in which secrets long hidden are revealed and Grampy gets sent to jail. While Ingrid works to... (more)
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  Hansel and Gretel

  by Rika Lesser, Paul O. Zelinsky

  The first Grimm tale illustrated by 1998 Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky is once again available in hardcover. Originally published in 1984, Zelinsky's paintings for Hansel and Gretel are as compelling as his later work and will captivate readers with their mysterious beauty, emotional power, and brilliant originality. Each spread brings to life a world as rich and real as our own—detailed, colorful,... (more)
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  The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

  by Louise Murphy

  In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a... (more)
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  Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 4

  Black Swan, White Raven

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yearns with new golden thread. BLACK SWAN, WHITE RAVEN revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled and terrified us in our early youth--carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping... (more)
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  The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children

  by Yoko Tanaka, Keith McGowan

  The New Yorker recommends: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/10/put-this-in-their-pumpkins.html for info. USA Today also really liked it, calling it "scary, funny, and subversive." An ALA 2010 Notable Children's Recording and a 2011 Texas Bluebonnet Book. Publishers Weekly said: “McGowan makes a strong debut with this contemporary recasting of Hansel and Gretel.” BCCB recommended it.
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  A Wolf at the Door

  and Other Retold Fairy Tales

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  These are not your mother's fairy tales... Did you ever wonder how the dwarves felt after Snow White ditched them for the prince? Do you sometimes wish Cinderella hadn't been so helpless and petite? Are you ready to hear the Giant's point of view on Jack and his beanstalk? Then this is the book for you. Thirteen award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers offer up their versions of these classic... (more)
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  Five Hundred Kingdoms: Book 5

  The Sleeping Beauty

  by Mercedes Lackey

  Welcome to Eltaria, the land where fairy tales come true. A magical force known as the Tradition focuses on the beautiful Princess Rosamund shortly after her mother's death. After fleeing the Royal Huntsman, Rosamund meets the seven dwarfs, drinks a potion, and falls asleep. When Viking hero Siegfried finds her, he tries to kiss her awake--but Lily, Rosamund's fairy godmother, has other ideas and manipulates... (more)
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  Hansel and Gretel (Read It Yourself - Level 3)

  by Ladybird

  "Hansel and Gretel" is a well-loved tale of siblings working together. This is a Level Three tale for children who are developing reading confidence and stamina, and who are ready to progress to longer stories.
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  Hansel and Gretel

  by Rachel Isadora

  Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora gives readers a stunning new interpretation of this classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, setting the infamous witch’s cottage deep in a lush African forest. Hansel and Gretel’s plight feels all the more threatening as they’re plunged into the thick, dark jungle of Isadora’s rich collages.
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  Bedtime Stories Keepsake Edition

  by Unknown

  A beautiful book with outstanding, colorful illustrations on every page. Puss in Boots, 3 little Pigs, Ugly Duckling, and many more of the old favorites. Great gift
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  Pleasure Reading Series

  Fairy stories for pleasure reading (Pleasure reading series)

  This book is one of a series written under the direction of Edward W. Dolch, Professor of Education, University of Illinois. These well-known stories have been carefully re-written using "the first thousand words" for children's reading.
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  Northwoods Deep

  by Joel Arnold

  Bakadewin; The Ojibwe word for hunger. Bakadewin; an ancient evil guarded by an old man in a mosquito-ridden forest. Five children and their adult chaperone set off on a hike along the Mesaba River. All vanish without a trace except for one, too traumatized to speak. Local Ojibwe claim the Maymaygwayshi - mischievous spirits who live in the rocks along the river - stole the children. Six years later, Carol and... (more)