1. The Frog Prince, Continued By: Jon Scieszka Summary: This book is a sequel to the tale of The Frog Prince. Instead of living “happily ever after” problems arise on both sides because the princess wants the prince to go do something heroic instead of catching flies around the castle all day long. But, the prince wishes she wouldn’t nag him all day. Ultimately, the prince ends up running away and he encounters three witches (They were all from previous fairy tales). In the end of the book the prince realizes how good he had it with his princess and at midnight he returns home. Characters: Princess, Prince, Frog Setting: No real setting Theme: Magic 2. Anansi and the Moss- Covered Rock By: Eric A. Kimmel Summary: Anansi discovered a magical rock that makes people fall asleep by “Klomp.” Anansi wanted all of the animal’s food so she tried to trick them, but in the end all of the animals try to teach her a lesson. Characters: Anansi, spider Setting: Forest Theme: Animals, Values 3. The Three Snow Bears By: Jan Brett Summary: The Three Snow Bears is like a re-make of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The book begins with a girl named Aloo-ki who is looking for her sled dogs who drifted away on an iceberg. While she is on her journey looking for the dogs she finds an interesting igloo and three bowls of soup inside. (big, middle-sized and small and one is too hot, too cold and just right) She tastes them all and the bear family returns to their igloo with Aloo-ki’s sled dogs. She is scared when she wakes up to find bears in the igloo so she runs off and hops on the sled dogs! Characters: Aloo-ki, sled dogs, bear family Setting: An igloo Theme: Eskimos 4. The Three Pigs By: David Weisner Summary: The Three Pigs story starts out normal, as the Three Little Pigs fairy tale usually goes, but then the pigs seem to start using their imaginations to alter the usual, rather boring and predictable story. The Three Pigs begins by saying “Three pigs… Straw, sticks, bricks… Huffs and puffs… You probably know the rest. It’s an old story, and every time someone tells it the same thing happens. But who says it’s supposed to? Who’s in charge of this story? Who gets to decide? Has anyone asked the pigs? No? Well, it’s about time someone did.” All of a sudden the three pigs begin traveling throughout different settings and various storylines together. Characters: Three pigs, wolf Setting: Multiple settings Theme: Creativity, and imagination 5. The Tale of Peter Rabbit By: Beatrix Potter Summary: This is a story about a rabbit family and a little rabbit named Peter who is a troublemaker. He is caught in Mr. McGregor’s garden and is chased out multiple times. Mr. McGregor killed the father rabbit because he was caught in his garden as well, so mother rabbit forbids her rabbits to enter that garden. Peter goes in the garden when all of the other rabbits are out shopping and he get’s very sick from eating too much. In the end he escaped the garden again and returns home safe! Characters: Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, Mother rabbit Setting: A garden and a rabbit house Theme: Following directions 6. The Lion and the Mouse By: Jerry Pinkney Summary: This story shows the relationship between a lion and a mouse. Ultimately, the lion gets caught in a trap set my poachers and the mouse gnaws his way through the yarn and sets the lion free. Characters: A lion, mouse and poachers Setting: Unknown Theme: Loyalty, and friendship 7. Tom Thumb: Grimms’ Tales Retold By: Eric Carle Summary: This book has four individual mini stories in this book. These stories were a little odd to me but they do teach a good lesson, about admiring things you have of your own. Characters: Tom Thumb Setting: Multiple settings Theme: Admiring your own posessions 8. Prince Cinders By: Babette Cole Summary: Prince Cinders is a story very similar to Cinderella. Prince Cinders uses a fairy to be "big and hairy," but instead he was changed into a big hairy monkey (Trousers instead of glass slipper as well). The trousers fit Prince Cinders and Princess Lovelypenny proposed immediately, and turned his brothers into house fairies. Characters: Prince Cinders, 3 Hairy brothers, Fairy, Princess Lovelypenny Setting: Cinders' house and the ball Theme: Overcoming diversity 9. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble By: William Steig Summary: Sylvester find a red, shiny pebble one day during a rainy vacation. He wished it would stop raining and all of the sudden it did. He started believing his pebble could grant all of his dreams. He turned himself into a rock and then could not change himself back. His parents are frantically worrying at home and one day they traveled to Strawberry Hill and picked up the red rock. His father wished Sylvester would come home and he did. Characters: Sylvester Duncan, Lion, Mr. & Mrs. Duncan, dogs Setting: Strawberry Hill Theme: Magic 10. The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By: Linda Williams Summary: A little old lady went to get food and had to travel home through the woods. She ran into a bunch of items to scare her until she got home. The next day she woke up and all of the items built a scarecrow to scare the crows away. Characters: Old lady Setting: Forest Theme: Halloween 11. Tony's Bread By: Tomie de Paola Summary: Tony wanted to own a bakery in Italy and Angelo wanted to marry Serafina, so they switched places. Characters: Tony, Serafina, Angelo, Servants Setting: Village Theme: Values
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