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10 best books like The Girl Who Spun Gold (Virginia Hamilton): The First Strawberries, The Persian Cinderella, Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, The Tale of the Firebird, The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale

The First Strawberries
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0140564098
From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be. Long ago, the first man and woman quarreled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the wife's retreat. Luminous...
The Persian Cinderella
AuthorShirley Climo
ISBN0064438538
"A luminescent interpretation. Meticulously researched illustrations faithfully depict the ornate beauty of an ancient land" (Kirkus Reviews).

In this jewel-like version of a classic story, popular folklorist Shirley Climo tells the tale of Settareh, the Persian Cinderella.

Magic...
Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
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,...
The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm
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...
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0689848889
A Caldecott Honor author/illustrator team brings us a Caribbean Cinderella story, told from the perspective of the magical godmother.

You may think you already know this story about a beautiful servant girl, a cruel stepmother, a magnificent ball, and a lost slipper. But you’ve never...
The Tale of the Firebird
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...
The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale
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...
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0064410951
Once upon a time a miller's daughter was given an impossible task by a cruel and greedy king. She had to spin straw into gold. And who should show up to help her but an odd little man named Rumpelstiltskin.

According to tradition, the gold-bedazzled king and the miller's daughter are wed. But wait...
Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico
AuthorVerna Aardema
ISBN0679889361
Petra Mather's illustrations are bright, and actually rather sweet, if not cute, and I do much appreciate the idea that a little lamb is able to cunningly outsmart a cunning and stalking coyote (the coyote reminds me a bit of the big bad wolf, so common in European folktales and culture). That being said,...
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
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...
Anansi and the Talking Melon
AuthorEric A. Kimmel
ISBN0823411044


Now, I have been reading the “Anansi” series ever since I was little and I was always so amazed at the gorgeous artwork and the hilarious writing in each book! So, when I stumbled upon another “Anansi” story that was written by Eric A. Kimmel along with illustrations by Janet Stevens,...
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...
Snowbear Whittington: An Appalachian Beauty and the Beast
AuthorWilliam H. Hooks
ISBN0027443558
This simply wonderful Appalachian adaptation of the globally popular and celebrated Beauty and the Beast folktale type actually also contains many many elements of the Norwegian East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and it reminds me at least somewhat of the Russian folktale of Finist the Falcon Prince...
The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story
AuthorJudy Sierra
ISBN0689821883
In the Spice Islands, where clove and nutmeg trees grow,
a girl named Damura lived long ago.
Damura is a beautiful girl, as kind and lovely as the little green parrot that perches on the nutmeg tree. But Damura's stepmother and stepsister mistreat her. They force her to rise before dawn, carry...
Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0142401870
Hace mucho tiempo?a long time ago?there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kind-hearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but...
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...
Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp
AuthorMercer Mayer
ISBN0689815050
Liza Lou is a little girl who lives in a dangerous swamp, but she faces threats with courage and manages to outwit all the monsters.

At first I wondered why Liza's apparently loving mother kept sending her out to face these dangers alone. But if one ignores the supernatural element suddenly the...
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...
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