The Apple-Pip Princess

10 best books like The Apple-Pip Princess (Jane Ray): Elena's Serenade, Princess in Training, My Colors, My World, Planting the Wild Garden, Rapunzel: Based on the Original Story by the Brothers Grimm, The Magic Nesting Doll, The Princess Who Had No Kingdom, Fanny, Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure, The Twelve Dancing Princesses: (Books about Princess Dancing, Unicorn Books for Girls and Kids)

Elena's Serenade
AuthorCampbell Geeslin
ISBN0689849087
Who ever heard of a girl glassblower?
In Mexico, where the sun is called el sol and the moon is called la luna, a little girl called Elena wants to blow into a long pipe...and make bottles appear, like magic.
But girls can't be glassblowers. Or can they?
Join Elena on her fantastic journey to...
Princess in Training
AuthorTammi Sauer
ISBN0152065997
“Royalty does not karate-chop.” –Madame Gertrude
 
Princess Viola is great at skateboarding and karate-chopping, but she’s lousy at the royal wave, walk, and waltz. The king and queen are not pleased. What’s a princess to do? Attend the skill-polishing Camp Princess, of course....
My Colors, My World
AuthorMaya Christina González
ISBN0892392215
Little Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful, inspiring color in her world....but Maya's world, the Mojave Desert, seems to be filled with nothing but sand. With the help of a feathered friend, she searches everywhere to discover color in her world. In the brilliant purple of her mother's flowers,...
AuthorKathryn O. Galbraith
ISBN1561455636
Eloquent text and stunning illustrations combine to explore the many ways seeds are distributed.
A farmer and her son carefully plant seeds in their garden. In the wild garden, many seeds are planted too, but not by farmers' hands. Different kinds of animals transport seeds, often without knowing...
AuthorSarah Gibb


I almost gave this a miss because it is so so pink, but actually the illustrations are lovely. Gibb alternates between standard-style illustrations reminiscent of Jane Ray and Barbara Cooney and silhouettes a la Jan Pienlowski. The color pages are beautiful and detailed, and the silhouettes...
AuthorJacqueline K. Ogburn
ISBN0803724144
Katya's grandmother took a little matryoshka, a nesting doll, out of a small box. "If your need is great, open the doll and help will come. But you may only do so three times. After that the magic will be gone." A wicked spell has changed a handsome young prince to a pale glassy figure made of "living ice,"...
AuthorUrsula Jones
ISBN1846160421
A bedraggled Princess wanders around looking for her kingdom but can't find it. In the meantime, she delivers packages. (view spoiler)[A king and a variety of other leading nobility fall in love with her at a ball and have a food fight among themselves, so she marries a jester. Tres modern. (hide spoiler)].
Fanny
AuthorHolly Hobbie
ISBN0316166874
All Fanny wants in the world is a Connie doll, but Mom says "NO!" But no one ever said she couldn't make one instead! With some scissors, glue, and her craft box in hand, Fanny sets out to replicate Connie, but it's Annabelle who is the result of her efforts. A little lopsided and a little unkempt, Annabelle...
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0689810725
Margaret has a brave heart. She dreams of adventure and longs to travel to distant lands, so when a tall ship appears in the harbor, headed north to the Kingdoms of the Cold, Margaret won't be left behind.
But adventures are perilous things. Soon Margaret must face a ferocious sea serpent and even...
The Twelve Dancing Princesses: (Books about Princess Dancing, Unicorn Books for Girls and Kids)
AuthorBrigette Barrager
ISBN0811876969
The talented Brigette Barrager lavishly illustrates this beautiful retelling of the Grimm Brothers' "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." In this fairy tale, twelve princesses wake up every morning to find their shoes are worn out and they are totally exhausted! A handsome suitor discovers that the...
AuthorTeresa Bateman
ISBN1570916519
Great book. Fiona is so confident she thinks she can outwit the Leprechaun that took all the luck from Ireland. Now cows can't milk and chickens don't lay eggs and there are no potatoes. Not just anyone wants to square off against King of the Leprechauns. This is one of the spiritual laws of the universe....
Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
AuthorShirley Hughes
ISBN0689873999
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...
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0064435180
When a poor farmer falls into the clutches of a dragon, only Seven, his youngest daughter, will save him—by marrying the beast.
Publishers Weekly praised "Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling" and Mak's "skillfully and radiantly rendered illustrations" in this captivating and...
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596432764
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen.
 
Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words...
AuthorFlorence Parry Heide
ISBN0375845011
Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers.

Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her...
Willoughby & The Lion
AuthorGreg E. Foley
ISBN0061547506
This is the story of Willoughby, whose new house feels too small and very lonely.

It's also the story of an enchanted lion and spectacular wishes come true: of roller coasters, and fast, fast shoes, and enormous crowds of people.

But most of all, it's the story of one important question:...
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
AuthorPaul Fleischman
Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders.

Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cinderella. Her story has been passed down the centuries and across...
The Paper Princess
AuthorElisa Kleven
ISBN0140564241
A gust of wind sends a paper princess flying. ?Wait! I didn?t finish you,? cries the little girl who made her. ?I?ll finish myself,? calls the princess, and the wind carries her away, over a meadow and a river, to a carnival and a town, until finally she finds her way home. Elisa Kleven?s ?mixed-media collages...
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
AuthorKatie Smith Milway
ISBN1554530288
Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many.

After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell at the market. When his mother receives a loan from some village...
Snoring Beauty
AuthorBruce Hale
Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty: A handsome prince rescues a beautiful princess from a wicked fairy's terrible sleeping spell.

This story is just like the original. Except for the sarcastic frog narrator, the garlic-scented fairy, and--oh yeah--the princess in this book not...
Little Red Riding Hood
AuthorJerry Pinkney
ISBN0316013552
In this inspired rendering of the classic Grimm Brothers folktale, five-time Caldecott Honor winning artist Jerry Pinkney introduced two favorite children's characters to a new generation: the sly, scary wolf and the sweet little girl in her famous red hood. Readers will squeal with delight all...
There's a Wolf at the Door
AuthorZoe B. Alley
ISBN1596432756
FIVE CLASSIC TALES ALL STARRING ONE PUT-UPON WOLF

 in an oversized gift-ready package Wolf, a rather fine dresser and intelligent creature, just can’t catch a break. All he wants to do is eat some pig, lamb, a gosling or two, a loud sheperd…or that little girl wearing a red hood, but for...
Kate and the Beanstalk
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
ISBN0689825501
This feminist twist on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk really resonanted with me. I think this would so excellent to be included in a classroom for girls, and boys, to experience the idea that yes, girls can be heroines, even against great odds.
In this version, written by Mary Pope...
Falling for Rapunzel
AuthorLeah Wilcox
ISBN0142403997
The prince is hoping to fall for Rapunzel, but since she can't quite hear what he asks for, everything but her hair gets tossed out her window. Instead of her curly locks, she throws her dirty socks. Instead of silky tresses, out go lacey dresses. And you can predict the guaranteed-to-crack-kids-up clothing...
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