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Expand fairy tale programs, activities, and units with this lively guide to fractured, altered and otherwise retold classic favorites for K-5 students.

Table of Contents

Preface Beauty and the Beast The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Brave Little Tailor The Brenmen Town Musicians Cinderella The Country Mouse and the City Mouse The Emperor's New Clothes Goldilocks Hansel and Gretel Jack and the Beanstalk The Little Red Hen The Pancake The Princess and the Pea Rapunzel Red Riding Hood Rumpelstilskin The Shoemaker and the Elves Sleeping Beauty Snow White Stone Soup The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Three Little Pigs Tortoise and the Hare The Turnip The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Ugle Duckling The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Bibliography Author Index Title Index Illustrator Index Country/Culture Index Motif Index

About the Author

Catharine R. Bomhold is assistant professor of library and information science and director of the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi. Terri E. Elder is a school media specialist with the Birmingham (AL) Public School District.

Reviews

This reference title is a complete and comprehensive guide to more than 300 fractured, altered, and otherwise retold classic folk and fairy tales. . . . The numerous variants of titles like Cinderella, The Little Red Hen, Stone Soup, The Three Little Pigs, and a bevy of other originals, as well as annotations that explain the story variations, make this guide a wonderful tool for collection development purposes. Recommended.
*Library Media Connection*

This would be a useful work for those interested in either serious folklore or new approaches to old tales…it is the most complete of its kind, is well-researched and of obvious use to the right professionals.
*The Australian Library Journal*