The Ballad of Mulan

Author	Gerard Way
ISBN	1506711421

With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...

Author	Robert D. San Souci
ISBN	0786814217

Who cares if Disney used this story for one of their mindless features...
(sorry, it just rubbed me the wrong way that this was even mentioned).

This is a very old Chinese story of a warrior woman who, at the time women were prohibited from serving in the Khan's army, pretended to be a man (to...

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

Jeffrey Brown

What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if "Luke, I am your father" was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith.

Celebrated...

Author	Han Nolan
ISBN	0152046976

Leshaya is a survivor. Rescued from the brink of death, this child of a heroin addict has seen it all: revolving foster homes, physical abuse, an unwanted pregnancy. Now, as her tumultuous childhood is coming to an end, she is determined to make a life for herself by doing the only thing that makes her feel...

Author	Jacob Grimm
ISBN	0735840873

Rating: 4 / 5

Briar Rose is a classic faerie tale for children from the Brothers Grimm. This is the original story of Sleeping Beauty and the tale that inspired the numerous remakes and rewrites and movies.

I really enjoyed this. I had never read the original Briar Rose story before reading...

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	8426135331

The Loathsome Dragon is a retelling of the traditional English tale, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, based on an 18th-century ballad and retold by British folklorist Joseph Jacobs.

Although beautifully written, the tale is pretty standard fare: royalty, "fair" characters, magic,...

Author

Jacob Grimm

Who doesn't know the stunning story of Rapunzel, the girl with the long hair, kept captured by a witch in a tall, tall tower? A childhood classic for many people of my generation, older generations, and even generations to come.

However, in the countless retellings of this classic story, so...