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1) Very short tall tales to read together

Author

Hoberman, Mary Ann

Series

You read to me I'll read to you

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

[2014]

Physical Desc

32 pages : colored illustrations ; 29 cm

Description

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A latest collection in the best-selling series provides illustrated, easy-to-read adaptations of popular folk tales that celebrate the adventures of such characters as Johnny Appleseed, Annie Oakley and Paul Bunyan.

2) Leaping Beauty: and other animal fairy tales

Author

Maguire, Gregory

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle–grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy– tales, could be twisted...

3) Roy makes a car

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c2005

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.

Description

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Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

4) The people could fly: American Black folktales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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Award Winning Books for Kids

Description

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.