 | The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.99 Beautiful and so, so sad.
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 | Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Marianna Mayer
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $8.00 They loved this one. The kids giggled at Baba Yaga's name.
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 | Rumpelstiltskin by Brothers Grimm
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 As one student told me... "That prince is not very charming!"
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 | Snow White by Paul Heins
Buy used from: $35.95 Gorgeous and true to the original. Ribbons, comb and then apples.
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 | Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre: The Complete Collection
Buy new: $36.49 / Used from: $60.99 We watch the "Snow White" episode of this set to compare with the book.
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 | The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman
Buy used from: $5.12 Another beautiful book that stays as faithful as can be expected.
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 | Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $10.94 We compare and contrast this movie to the book.
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 | Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart (RTL) Hyman
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.98 Amazingly, no one has ever been grossed out by the wolf getting split open.
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 | The Water of Life: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by Barbara Rogasky
Buy used from: $29.75 This one is a very unusual story and always ends up being one of the most popular with my classes.
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 | Brave Margaret : An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci
Buy used from: $6.20 A girl hero!
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 | The Snow Princess by Ruth Sanderson
Buy used from: $8.25 This one is another unusual one. I much prefer it to "The Snow Queen," which I always thought was creepy.
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 | Beauty and the Beast by Marianna Mayer
Buy used from: $7.90 Sweet and gorgeous.
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 | The Lady and the Lion by Jacqueline K. Ogburn
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.77 This one is a nice mix of "Beauty and the Beast" and my personal favorite... the next story!
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 | East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer
Buy used from: $38.09 I LOVE this book. It is the most wonderful book to read outloud.
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 | Walt Disney's Cinderella by Cynthia Rylant
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.48 I know what you're thinking... a Disney book? Trust me. I have tons of picture book Cinderellas and this is the best one. The pictures are different enough from the film so no one ever recognizes them and the prose... oh, it's the most beautiful re-telling I have ever read.
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 | King Midas and the Golden Touch by Charlotte Craft
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.13 This one always gets to the kids.
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 | The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.97 The kids called this a "new" fairy tale.
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 | Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? by Lauren Child
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.57 This always gets a silly laugh.
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 | The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.28 We do a couple different stories of the three pigs. Always very fun.
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 | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.41 The wolf never gets much sympathy from my class.
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 | The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.99 The kids howled with laughter when we read this.
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