Sleeping Beauty
10 best books like Sleeping Beauty (Jacob Grimm): The Little Mermaid, Puss in Boots, The Ugly Duckling, Hansel and Gretel, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Thumbelina, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Princess and the Pea
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0698400011 |
Once there was a little mermaid who fell in love with a human boy . . . The story may be familiar, but Lisbeth Zwerger's art makes this fairytale seem brand-new. This Jubilee edition, celebrating 200 years of Hans Christian Andersen, is superbly illustrated in Zwerger's signature style. Known for her...
| Author | Charles Perrault |
| ISBN | 0374460345 |
Charles Perrault's Puss in Boots has been an irresistible magnet for countless illustrators ever since this classic French tale was first published in 1697. So the question arises: Do we really need another edition of Puss? Presented with Fred Marcellino's magnificent interpretation of this nimble...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
For over one hundred years The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite, and Jerry Pinkney's spectacular new adaptation brings it triumphantly to new generations of readers. With keen emotion and fresh vision, the acclaimed artist captures the essence of the tale's timeless appeal: The journey...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1935179624 |
This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's. A long time ago. Back then, we all lives on the edge of the great forest.
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattoti both remember the horror and fascination with which they read the Grimm Brothers' "Hansel and Gretel."...
The Emperor's New Clothes
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0618344217 |
Illustrated by the beloved creator of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House, and Katy and the Big Snow, here is a delightful version of the tale that boys and girls have loved for centuries. The Emperor himself, his court, and his clothes—or lack of them—are ridiculous as only the master...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
| Author | Robert Browning |
| ISBN | 0679428127 |
Robert Browning's famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0803728123 |
It's not easy being small, but in Brad Sneed's lovely new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina, at least life is full of adventure. Soon after being born from a fiery red flower, Thumbelina is kidnapped from home and pursued by many suitors, including a horrible toad, a bumbling beetle,...
| 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 | Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont |
Beauty and the Beast, finally.
Not that one.
No, not the one with Hermione either.
Ah, the original! Where Beauty has five siblings including two (evil) sisters and Beast is pretty much a nice guy from the very beginning.
And I really don't...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
The Princess and the Pea is a famous story from 1835, by Hans Christian Andersen, which has been adapted and retold numerous times. The original is quite short, and clearly satirical and tongue in cheek. Really it is a one-idea story, in which an obviously ridiculous situation is contrived, to test whether...
| Author | Charles Perrault |
| ISBN | 1906814082 |
This book contains Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. In this classic/original version, King Stefan and the Queen wish for a child. When at last they finally get their wish, they name their daughter, Aurora. When they have a feast to celebrate her birth, the three fairy godmothers...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594561788 |
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
| Author | Giambattista Basile |
This is one of the really early renditions of Sleeping Beauty, and I really hate it.
and here I thought Disney's version of this story featured a passive princess! This is such an awful way to tell the story and it doesn't make any sense (giving birth in your sleep? really?) I hate the way Talia is...
| Author | Bob Grant |
| ISBN | 0736423087 |
I am an empath, who cannot abide animal death even fictionally. With relief, my 1941 Golden Book subtly skims it. It focuses on education and joy: a Mother's love and a forest welcoming a birth. Emphasis is on friendship, fun, and like German-speakers of my family, Felix Salten lacks no humour. From a...
