Melisande
10 best books like Melisande (E. Nesbit): Cinderella, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, Moss Gown, Hilary Knight's Cinderella, The Persian Cinderella, The Fortune-Tellers, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale, The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter
| Author | Kinuko Y. Craft |
| ISBN | 1587170051 |
This brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favorite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft's luminous paintings, inspired by the lavish artwork of late seventeenth-century France and embellished with extraordinary...
| Author | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |
| ISBN | 1564020495 |
"This wondrous tale is brilliantly matched by Lynch's elegant yet accessible watercolors. . . .The best edition now available. Bravo!" —KIRKUS REVIEWS (pointered review)
A beloved Norwegian folktale, EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON is the romantic story of a bewitched prince and the...
| Author | William H. Hooks |
| ISBN | 0395547938 |
As noted on the dust-jacket blurb, elements of
King Lear
and
Cinderella
meet in this Southern folktale, which was told to William H. Hooks as a child in North Carolina. When Candace's elderly and infirm father asks each of his daughters to describe how she loves him, her answer - that she loves him...
| Author | Hilary Knight |
| ISBN | 0375814221 |
Hilary Knight imbues the story of Cinderella with characters of the same humor, zest, and personality that have made generations of children and grown-ups fall in love with his most famous creation: Eloise. A pair of pet cats, a blue fairy godmother, and an endearing, if somewhat overweight, Prince...
| Author | Shirley Climo |
| ISBN | 0064438538 |
"A luminescent interpretation. Meticulously researched illustrations faithfully depict the ornate beauty of an ancient land" (Kirkus Reviews).
In this jewel-like version of a classic story, popular folklorist Shirley Climo tells the tale of Settareh, the Persian Cinderella.
Magic...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0140562338 |
5 STARS FOR THE ART.
4 STARS FOR THE STORY.
I had high hopes for this one since it was born of the creative talents of two of children's literature's most gifted. It lived up to my expectations in that the illustrations are absolutely stunningly fabulous ans so full of atmosphere and the story...
| 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 | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0803726511 |
Love and honor can overcome even the fiercest obstacles, as we see in this spellbinding fairy tale, with shades of "Beauty and the Beast." To save her father, a young woman must go to the castle of a menacing lion. She fears for her life, but finds kindness rather than danger there, for the lion by day is a...
Well, I have modern sensibilities and could never get into Arthurian lore. But I loved Saint George and the Dragon by this team, and so I had to try this. Very glad I did. Not dumbed-down for kids, not updated for feminists, it is what it is. And it does set up the scene, tone, atmosphere, values... well enough...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0064410951 |
Once upon a time a miller's daughter was given an impossible task by a cruel and greedy king. She had to spin straw into gold. And who should show up to help her but an odd little man named Rumpelstiltskin.
According to tradition, the gold-bedazzled king and the miller's daughter are wed. But wait...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0590473786 |
Please note that this review of Virginia Hamilton's exquisite The Girl Who Spun Gold is going to be a bit different in set-up and scope, in so far that I am mostly posting general musings about both The Girl Who Spun Gold and also concerning Rumpestilzchen types of folk and fairy tales in global lore and...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0590072846 |
Why is this not more widely known? The illustrations have much the same whimsy as Mayer's famous "Little Critter" series, but are much more finely done, absolutely lovely to look at, to find all the details in, to look at again. There are several 'morals' in the story, all valuable. Williams' writing...
Catkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.
Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale. Rich with...
| Author | Katrin Hyman Tchana |
| ISBN | 0316387010 |
I've just read this quickly before sending it to my niece. I'm disappointed that the prose doesn't sparkle. Tchana is a pedestrian stylist and there are certainly better-written folktales. But the content is fabulous. The 'princesses' are bright, curious, patient, physically courageous, thoughtful,...
| Author | Mercer Mayer |
| ISBN | 0689711131 |
"Mayer's telling is an interweaving of plot elements from the original Scandinavian fairy tale with inventions of his own and details from The Frog Prince. The spellbound frog is whisked off to the trolls' castle and the ungrateful lass loses her chance to marry a handsome prince until she creates a...
| Author | Wilhelm Grimm |
| ISBN | 0060543124 |
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
| Author | Shirley Hughes |
| ISBN | 0689873999 |
The classic story of Cinderella gains even more charm in this glamorous retelling by world-famous picture book writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes.
Ella Cinders loves helping her father in his dress shop and laughing with her friend Buttons, the store's delivery boy. Then comes the terrible...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0316769061 |
Please note that this review is written for my use as a librarian and may not appeal directly to readers. Please review at your own risk.
Accelerated Reader has this book listed as being for lower grades, or readers in K to 3rd grade. They also have listed that this read is worth 0.5 AR points.
Not...
| Author | Charlotte Huck |
| ISBN | 0688131077 |
Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on...
| Author | Lynn Roberts-Maloney |
| ISBN | 0810941686 |
Cinderella, An Art Deco Love Story, by Lynn Roberts is a retelling of the Cinderella story in the 1920-30 Art Deco time period. In this version of the fairytale, Cinderella’s father is a “quite forgetful and could not see anything at all without his glasses.” As a result, he returns home two weeks...
| Author | Alan Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0140566732 |
I reckon ye heard o' Cinderella, but lemme tell you a story 'bout a sweet li'l thing named Rose? Set in the Appalachian Mountains and told in a lilting dialect that just begs to be read aloud, this is a unique and lively adaptation of the traditional Cinderella story. Complete with an enchanting protagonist,...
| Author | Louis Untermeyer |
| ISBN | 0307608522 |
"This is a book to grow on. This is a book to grow with. In these pages are poems that will become favorites; you will never lose your taste for them. They will be part of you as long as you live. These verses - the nimble and nonsensical as well as the greatly meaningful- delighted me when I was young. They still...
