The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

10 best books like The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (Laura Amy Schlitz): Cupid and Psyche, King Stork, Wonder Bear, Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale, The Princess Who Had No Kingdom, The Tale of the Firebird, The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale

AuthorM. Charlotte Craft
ISBN0688131638
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....
AuthorHoward Pyle
ISBN0688158137
Minimal dragons and lions, despite what the blurb implies. No dragons, no lions, despite what the blurb says. I can't tell for sure, but I don't think the text is Pyle's original (despite no mention of an adaptation, when I find picture captions for Pyle's original art the language is much more archaic)....
AuthorTao Nyeu
ISBN0803733283
Two kids plant mysterious seeds, and up grows a remarkable flowering vine, out of which emerges an even more remarkable big white bear. On his head is a top hat, a hat that allows him to work all kinds of magic that day. He pulls monkey after monkey from the hat, blows bubbles in amazing shapes, and transforms...
AuthorPatricia Storace
ISBN0786807911

"You live in a tower without a stair,
Sugar Cane, Sugar Cane, let down your hair."

Stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by island sorceress Madam Fate, beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea. With only a pet green monkey named Callaloo for company,...
AuthorMarianna Mayer
ISBN0688085008
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...
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0823409074


Now, I have read many stories from the Brothers Grimm and I had enjoyed every single one of them! So, imagine my surprise when I finally came upon one of the Brothers Grimm’s stories being put into a singular children’s book called “The Water of Life” retold by Barbara Rogasky along with...
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0688147801
Blessed Mary rewards Teresa's good deeds with a shining gold star. Later she punishes Teresa's unkind stepsisters, Isabel and Inez, with hideous horns and donkey's ears that they try to hide under heavy veils! But will Teresa outshine her stepsisters at the festival? Robert D. San Souci retells this...
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)].
AuthorGennady Spirin
ISBN0399235841
In all the world there is said to be nothing more beautiful than the Firebird. When Ivan-Tsarevitch, youngest son of the Tsar, goes on a quest for the amazing bird, he finds himself flying over mountains and woods on a talking wolf, confronting a wicked Baba Yaga, and rescuing an enchanted princess from...
AuthorJacqueline K. Ogburn
ISBN0803726511
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...
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561453994
Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage.
That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking...
AuthorDav Pilkey
ISBN0152002480
Four separate adult friends of mine who've experienced horrific abuse cried over this book. I did, too. It is undoubtedly the most cathartic children's book I've ever read.

The most popular reviewer of this book, who observes in passing that it's "goodhearted and kind" (even as, for example,...
AuthorNina Jaffe
ISBN0805043845
Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his youngest daughter, Mireleh, declares she loves her father the way meat...
AuthorAllan Ahlberg
ISBN0763635421
The team behind THE RUNAWAY DINNER reverses direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in which everyone lives happily ever . . . before.

"Jack was running like mad in the dark woods with a hen under his arm.
Previously, he had stolen the hen and climbed down a beanstalk."

But...
AuthorAntonia Barber
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...
AuthorKatrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN0316387010
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,...
AuthorRuth Sanderson
ISBN0316769061
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...
AuthorGerald McDermott
ISBN0152053743
Of all the animals in the rain forest, Jabutí was the favorite. His shell was smooth and shiny, and the songs he played on his flute were sweet.
But his music was a reminder, too, of the mischievous pranks Jabutí sometimes played. His song reminded Tapir of being tricked, Jaguar of being fooled,...
AuthorHelen Ward
ISBN0763660981
A gorgeously illustrated and poetically written classic, set in a 1930s-era city at Christmastime

Rediscover the tale of the simple country mouse, magically retold by Helen Ward. Beguiled by his cousin’s amazing tales, the country mouse visits the electric city. Unfortunately the town...
AuthorJairo Buitrago
ISBN1554981786
Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012



Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests...
AuthorOdile Weulersse
ISBN0802854168
It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding while Nasreddine walks, the boy is ashamed. The following week, Nasreddine persuades his father to walk, and let him ride -- but then people criticize the boy for...
AuthorAlice Schertle
ISBN0152165681
All through the year, this shaggy, raggy, rumbly, bumbly bear faces down whatever comes his way: bee stings and scolding squirrels, cold rushing rivers and prickly bushes. And he does it all with a spring in his step and a smile on his face. There’s just one thing he can't abide. Luckily, he knows exactly...
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...
AuthorDemi
ISBN0689846800
Once upon a time in Turkey there lived a funny, little wise man named Nasrettin Hoca. He wore a huge, white turban and a worn-out coat made of patches upon patches. Riding about on his little gray donkey, he liked to help whomever he could. A friend to all, Nasrettin is a popular figure. But when he is suddenly...
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