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10 best books like The Fisherman & His Wife (Rabbit Ears) (Jacob Grimm): Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm, Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile, Max's Christmas, Sukey and the Mermaid, Strega Nona Meets Her Match, The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition, Dear Mili, Caleb and Kate, Three Samurai Cats: A Story from Japan, Rumpelstiltskin

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374468680
I guess everyone wants to put their spin on these old fairy tales, but it’s difficult to have a stronger voice than Disney did as a visual medium is so powerful. I don’t think I have heard this version before. At the end, the kingdom of Snow White’s prince puts a pair of sandals on the wicked queen with...
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
AuthorWon-Ldy Paye
ISBN0805070478
Mrs. Chicken has to think fast to outwit hungry Crocodile, who wants to eat her for dinner.

One morning Mrs. Chicken took her bath in a puddle.
“Cluck, cluck,” she said proudly. “What a pretty chicken I am!”

Mrs. Chicken can’t see her wings in the puddle, so she walks down...
Max's Christmas
AuthorRosemary Wells
ISBN0803702906
I actually first saw “Max’s Christmas” on a video from Weston Woods and from then on, I was so intrigued by this story! “Max’s Christmas” is a cute children’s book by Rosemary Wells and it is about how Max tries to see Santa Claus for the first time! “Max’s Christmas” is a truly wonderful...
Sukey and the Mermaid
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0785791345
Sukey's new step-pa is a mean, bossy man. Every day Sukey wakes at dawn to work in the garden. All her step-pa ever does is watch her and yell if she so much as stops to fan herself. Sukey's ma calls him Mister Jones. Sukey prefers the name "Mister Hard-Times". One day, Sukey runs away to her secret place by...
Strega Nona Meets Her Match
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698114116
Strega Nona (Grandma Witch) has cures for warts and headaches, even lovesickness. She uses old-fashioned potions and magic and the villagers in Calabria flock to her door. But when her friend Strega Amelia comes over the mountain for a visit, she brings more than just gossip. Soon she's set up her own...
The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition
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...
Dear Mili
AuthorWilhelm Grimm
ISBN0060543124
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
Caleb and Kate
AuthorWilliam Steig
ISBN0374410380
Caleb the carpenter and Kate the weaver loved each other, but not every single minute. Once in a while they'd differ about this or that and wind up in such a fierce quarrel you'd never believe they were husband and wife.

Wouldn't I? Oh, William Steig, you have such a rosy (yet not implausible) view...
Three Samurai Cats: A Story from Japan
AuthorEric A. Kimmel
ISBN0823418774


“Three Samurai Cats” is an ancient Japanese folktale about how three samurai cats come to the Daimyo’s castle to defeat a savage rat with the last samurai cat giving the rat a taste of his own medicine. Eric A. Kimmel’s hilarious retelling and Mordicai Gerstein’s colorful drawings...
Rumpelstiltskin
AuthorPaul Galdone
ISBN0833544489


There have been so many different versions of the legendary Brothers Grimm tale, “Rumpelstiltskin” that I was surprised to find another version of this tale, even though I already know the story by now! But, Paul Galdone’s version of the classic Brothers Grimm tale is definitely something...
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett: A Tall Tale
AuthorSteven Kellogg
ISBN0688140424
On the day she is born this amazing baby proudly announces she can out-talk, out-grin, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky. Within a few years Sally is off to the frontier, where she stuns a hungry grizzly bear, makes a lasso out of six rattlesnakes, and is more than a match for the mighty...
Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf
AuthorJudy Sierra
ISBN0375835326
BIG BAD WOLF, now old and residing in the Villain Villa Senior Center, is invited to a tea by a children's librarian. His best friend, a toothsome crocodile, warns him that he will have to mind his manners. B. B. Wolf makes up a song: "Sip your tea and never slurp, say 'excuse me' if you burp. Smile and have...
Green Wilma
AuthorTedd Arnold
ISBN0140563628


“Green Wilma” is a hysterical children’s book created by Tedd Arnold, well-known author of the “Parts” series. Chaos ensures when a female frog causes mischief at her school when she tries to catch a delicious looking fly that was flying all over the school. "Green Wilma" is certainly...
The Book that Jack Wrote
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0140553851
This book is about a Rat, a Cat, a Cow over the moon, and a Baby humming a tune. It's about what the Bug did to the rug. It's about how the Egg fell off the wall. It's about the crazy mayhem that can occur when nursery rhymes go awry. Children and adults alike will enjoy reading this book over and over. "This one...
Weird Parents
AuthorAudrey Wood
ISBN0140549242
32 pp. Pub: 9/95. *****Not only does his mother pack weird surprises in his lunch box--like a hard-boiled egg with rabbit ears and whiskers--but his father asks him to do weird things in public, like imitate a chicken. Of course, the boy won't, so his weird father does it instead. Why can't his parents...
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy
AuthorMaurice Sendak
ISBN0062050141
We are all in the dumps
For diamonds are trumps
The kittens are gone to St. Paul's!
The baby is bit
The moon's in a fit
And the houses are built
Without walls
Jack and Guy
Went out in the Rye
And they found a little boy
With one black eye
Come says Jack let's knock...
Randy's Dandy Lions
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395274982


“Randy’s Dandy Lions” is another classic book from the creative mind of Bill Peet about how Randy’s lions always had stage fright but they realized that there are things far scarier than stage fright. “Randy’s Dandy Lions” is a superb book about friendship that children will...
The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
AuthorLeVar Burton
ISBN0990539504
When little Mica Mouse is scared by thunder booming outside her cozy home, Papa Mouse reaches for just the right story to comfort her. Hugging her close, he begins to read The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm. In this poetic book-within-a-book, a happy little rhinoceros is overwhelmed by a storm that...
Manners Are Not for Monkeys
AuthorHeather Tekavec
ISBN1771380519
The old zookeeper has no idea how much trouble it will cause when she moves the monkeys into a cage near the picnic and play areas. Now the monkeys can watch the children up close, and they find the children so fascinating that before long, they start behaving just like them! Mother Monkey is not amused....
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