The Devil's Storybook
10 best books like The Devil's Storybook (Natalie Babbitt): The Land of Green Ginger, Shadow Castle, Tales of the Kingdom, Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, The Orange Fairy Book, The Little Lame Prince, The Snow Princess, The World's Best Fairy Tales, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, Curses, Inc. and Other Stories
This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and...
| Author | Marian Cockrell |
| ISBN | 0595092969 |
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
| Author | David R. Mains |
| ISBN | 0891915605 |
These classic allegorical tales are ones I grew up reading, and they continue to be meaningful to me now as an adult and someone who can share them with the children around me. I have just taken my Wed. night Bible class of 1st - 3rd graders through this book and they all became fans. It is easy to draw out Biblical...
Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation.
How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham,...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486219097 |
The first Fairy Book I've read so far without any overt racism in it anywhere (and it's the antepenultimate one; sigh).
Look! The black characters get illustrated heroically and everything:
Hooray!
On the other hand, there are quite a few of those stories that...
| Author | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| ISBN | 1426407556 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0316779822 |
I love to read picture books, mainly for their illustrations. Ruth Sanderson's illustrations are always exceptional. Here, she knocks this out of the park because this is full of magic and the most amazing illustrations.
As for the story, this has a happier ending compared to the story I knew...
| Author | Belle Becker Sideman |
| ISBN | 0895770784 |
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0440227674 |
Vande Velde expertly mixes horror and humor as well as the best and worst that human nature has to offer in this collection of short fiction, and she does it without relying on blood and guts.The best of these stories is the title piece. Bill has invited Denise to the school's end of the year dance, but decides...
In this second fanciful novel which follows The Bridge, Jeri Massi continues the history of the tiny island country of Bracken. Rosewyn is the young princess, daughter of Rosalynn and Herron. Unlike her quiet and gentle mother, Rosewyn is forever climbing trees and drainspouts, knocking down boys...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
Basic plot: Mallory frees a wizard from being trapped in a tree, antics ensue.
I like this book more for a funny thing that happened to me than for the content. The book was good- a cute, little fantasy story- but nothing that'll really be remembered over time the way The Chronicles of Narnia or...
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
Long ago I was a young reader growing up in the middle of nowhere (eleven miles from each of the three nearest towns, in fact). I didn't often get to the library, but I had a number of magazines and books thoughtfully delivered by the USPS. One of those magazines, a little digest-sized thing, included The...
| Author | Erik L'Homme |
| ISBN | 2070634698 |
Persuadé qu'Ombe est en danger, Jasper part à sa recherche avec un compagnon inattendu, Erglug, un drôle de troll à l'humour décapant. Catapultés dans un étrange Moyen Âge par le mage Siyah, les deux amis devront conjuguer leurs talents pour sortir de cette mauvaise farce !
L'association...
"This is an odd book" or so states the author in 1917 for his first introduction. A fairytale with seven league boots, a princess, an enchantment, and the Countess Belvane. As Milne wrote in a later introduction: "But, as you see, I am still finding it difficult to explain just what sort of book it is. Perhaps...
| Author | Pierre Bottero |
| ISBN | 2070634663 |
Elle s'appelle Ombe, est lycéenne à Paris et adore la moto. Elle a aussi l'incroyable pouvoir d'être incassable ou presque. C'est pourquoi L'Association l'a recrutée comme agent stagiaire. Une stagiaire de choc, qui fait des débuts remarqués en explosant une bande de gobelins devant tous...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375836071 |
Meet Imogene Tripp, a plucky girl with a passion for history. As a baby, her first words were "Four score and seven years ago." In preschool, she finger-painted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it's not surprising that when the mayor wants to tear down the long-neglected Liddleville Historical Society to...
| Author | Philippa Dowding |
| ISBN | 1459707354 |
Shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award, 2015
SEQUEL NEWS: Everton Miles is Stranger than Me, Oct 2016
This morning, I woke up on the ceiling ... So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of...
| Author | Anna Fienberg |
| ISBN | 1741149665 |
Second book in the Tashi series, we liked it even more than the first. Tashi first tricks and befriends a couple of giants (my girls especially loved this one) and then he goes on to befriend/trick/save a gang of bandits who want to keep him as a son.
Funny, and action packed. The words are easy to...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0374479917 |
Aunt Sally is beyond any of Melissa, Amanda, and Pee Wee's expectations. She has come all the way from Vancouver Island, Canada, to take care of the children while their parents are away, and right from the start Aunt Sally enchants them with tales of her childhood with their father. Odd characters figure...
