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The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm

10 best books like The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm (Jacob Grimm): Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, The Bat-Poet, Swine Lake, The Art of Maurice Sendak, The Fairy Tales Of Madame d'Aulnoy, Fairy Tales, The Complete Works of François Rabelais, What Do You Do, Dear?, The Classic Fairy Tales, Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
AuthorMaurice Sendak
‘A daring imagination has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale [about Jennie, the Sealyham terrier, who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre].' 'H. ‘Superb fantasy.' 'BL. Notable Children's Books of 1967 (ALA)
1968 Fanfare Honor List (H)
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The Bat-Poet
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0062050842
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

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Swine Lake
AuthorJames Marshall
ISBN0062051717
While I was and remain in absolute love with Maurice Sendak's brilliant illustrations (they are lively, fun, imaginative, and the delicious puns and word plays using porcine terms/descriptions from a number of different languages leave me smiling gleefully and with much appreciation), James Marshall's...
The Art of Maurice Sendak
AuthorSelma G. Lanes
ISBN0810980630
Creator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and the illustrations for dozens of other memorable children's books, Maurice Sendak has ranked among the best-known and best-loved artists in America for nearly thirty years. Now his life and work are explored in...
The Fairy Tales Of Madame d'Aulnoy
AuthorMarie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
ISBN1410208311
CONTENTS Gracieuse and Percinet Fair Goldilocks The Blue Bird Prince Ariel Princess Mayblossom Princess Rosette The Golden Branch The Bee and the Orange Tree The Good Little Mouse The Ram Finette Cendron Fortun?e Babiole The Yellow Dwarf Green Serpent Princess Carpillon The Benevolent Frog The...
Fairy Tales
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0871406586
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant...
The Complete Works of François Rabelais
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN0520064011
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own...
What Do You Do, Dear?
AuthorSesyle Joslin
ISBN0064431134
This is an old favorite. It was on the bookshelf as a boy. Yesterday my mother gave this book to my daughter for Christmas. Beetle doesn't quite get all the subtlety, but it was nice to read with her all the same.

This book was written in 1961. Much like Fred Gwynne's books, it is quite interesting...
The Classic Fairy Tales
AuthorIona Opie
ISBN0195202198
This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well...
Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0195178211
Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant...
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN0152387420
I read this book of creation stories and cosmogonies from around the world out-loud to my 8-year-old daughter to try and balance out the Christian stories that she is deluged by in American culture. Many children have no idea that predominant western religions did not develop in a vacuum, but are threads...
East of the Sun & West of the Moon
AuthorMercer Mayer
ISBN0689711131
"Mayer's telling is an interweaving of plot elements from the original Scandinavian fairy tale with inventions of his own and details from The Frog Prince. The spellbound frog is whisked off to the trolls' castle and the ungrateful lass loses her chance to marry a handsome prince until she creates a...
Open House for Butterflies
AuthorRuth Krauss
ISBN0060286369
Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krausspublished more than thirty books...
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...
Tatterhood and Other Tales
AuthorEthel Johnston Phelps
ISBN0912670509
These twenty-five traditional tales come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some...
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0060284773
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous fools—the oldest and the greatest—are the seven Elders. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom; four sisters who mix...
The Charles Addams Mother Goose
AuthorCharles Addams
ISBN0689848749
"Girls and boys, Come out to play, The moon does shine As bright as day. Come with a hoop, Come with a call, Come with a good will, Or not at all."
"Addams, master New Yorker cartoonist and black-humor prankster par excellence, has thrown tradition to the winds and taken matters into his own bedeviled...
King Matt the First
AuthorJanusz Korczak
ISBN1565124421
Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although...
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