Cinderella
10 best books like Cinderella (Kinuko Y. Craft): Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cupid and Psyche, The Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast
Author | Marianna Mayer |
ISBN | 1587171481 |
I learned about this book from a good friend's blog and went straight to Amazon to find a used copy. Much to my delight, it looks to be a first edition from 1978 (although I'm not sure how many editions there are). The cover was in horrible condition when it arrived as it was falling to pieces. I...
Author | Jacob Grimm |
ISBN | 0316354503 |
Spared by her would-be executioner, Snow White finds a home with seven kindly dwarfs, but the hateful queen who wants her dead will stop at nothing to be the most beautiful woman in the land. A poisoned apple seems to send Snow White to her death, but true love brings her back, and good once again prevails.
Paul...
Author | Mahlon F. Craft |
ISBN | 1587171201 |
Sleeping Beauty's enchanted slumber has captivated readers' hearts for centuries. Now brought luminously to life by K. Y. Craft's lavish paintings, this new edition of a timeless favorite is sure to enchant readers both young and old. Fairy tale lovers have been eagerly awaiting Craft's next magical...
Author | M. Charlotte Craft |
ISBN | 0688131638 |
Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves.
Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host....
Author | Trina Schart Hyman |
ISBN | 0316387029 |
The story of the beautiful princess who sleeps for a hundred years has captured the imaginations of children for an even longer period of time. How could everyone in a castle - even the flies on the walls - sleep for a century and then wake up?
This magical, beautifully illustrated tale begins...
Author | Jan Brett |
ISBN | 0899194974 |
The artwork here is so gorgeous. Jan’s drawings of peacocks and roses is enough alone to check out this book and look at them. The one mistake I see is that Jan chose to make Beauty blonde - I don’t approve of that decision, but otherwise this is a good rendition. It is closer to the myth that Robin McKinley...
Author | Max Eilenberg |
ISBN | 0763631604 |
Exquisite paintings and a lush retelling bring a treasured classic to new life.
A beautiful daughter dreams of meeting a handsome prince, but in order to save her father's life, she leaves home to live with a terrible, frightening beast. Though her patron is hideous, his disarming generosity...
Author | Marianna Mayer |
ISBN | 0688085008 |
Sweet, lovely Vasilisa lives with her jealous stepmother and stepsisters on the edge of a dark forest inhabited by the evil witch Baba Yaga. One night the stepmother sends Vasilisa to visit Baba Yaga, an errand from which the gentle girl has little chance of returning alive. "An engaging text and accomplished...
Author | Ian Wallace |
ISBN | 0888992122 |
DRA:? Grades:3-5
When a mean step mother convinces their dad to abandon them in the woods, Hansel and Gretel are forced to fend for themselves and find their way back home. The first time they were left in the forest, they managed to go back home because of the shinny pebles Hansel left on the path....
Author | Mahlon F. Craft |
ISBN | 0060539194 |
Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book.
The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. His beautiful daughter sacrifices herself to...
Author | Mercer Mayer |
ISBN | 0027653404 |
This version of the story has some interesting and different details. For one thing, the wicked fairy appears 3 times during the story, not just once. Some of the fairies have names, with the wicked fairy being the Blue Fairy, and the fairy who softens her curses being the Star Fairy. The first curse of...