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The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women

10 best books like The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women (Katrin Hyman Tchana): The Book of Dragons, Cupid and Psyche, King Stork, Moss Gown, Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale, The Tale of the Firebird

The Book of Dragons
AuthorMichael Hague
ISBN0060759682
Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, boldy captures seventeen classic dragon tales, armed only with the magic of his paintbrush. Here beside the heroics of Perseus, St. George, and Sigurd are the adventures of the girl who slew a dragon and became queen of China, as well...
Cupid and Psyche
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....
King Stork
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)....
Moss Gown
AuthorWilliam H. Hooks
ISBN0395547938
As noted on the dust-jacket blurb, elements of King Lear and Cinderella meet in this Southern folktale, which was told to William H. Hooks as a child in North Carolina. When Candace's elderly and infirm father asks each of his daughters to describe how she loves him, her answer - that she loves him...
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0152020470
These thirteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, brawny, brave heroines--and not one damsel in distress! From Bradamante, the fierce female medieval knight, to Li Chi, the Chinese girl who slays a dreaded serpent and saves her town, these heroines use their cunning, wisdom, and strength...
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
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...
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...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN0375804714
The young woman lifted one foot in the air. Then the other. She flew clumsily at first, with the child now held tightly in her arms. Then she felt the magic, the African mystery. Say she rose just as free as a bird. As light as a feather.

This cherished image of escape from slavery is one of the most...
Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale
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...
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...
The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur
AuthorMargaret Hodges
Well, I have modern sensibilities and could never get into Arthurian lore. But I loved Saint George and the Dragon by this team, and so I had to try this. Very glad I did. Not dumbed-down for kids, not updated for feminists, it is what it is. And it does set up the scene, tone, atmosphere, values... well enough...
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...
Melisande
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN0763607177
This delightful "modern" fairy tale describes the trials of a royal family beset with too many traditions from "historical" fairy tales. Borrowing themes from Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Melisande is a tale of traditional fairytale and mathematical logic. Unexpected things happen to characters...
The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm
AuthorLaura Amy Schlitz
ISBN0763627305
A dejected soldier makes a pact with the devil in this haunting, ultimately hopeful fairy tale, masterfully retold and vividly illustrated.

Man or bear? When a person gives up hope, is he still human? Such is the story of a soldier who has lost everything to war: his childhood home, his family...
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...
The Sea King's Daughter: A Russian Legend
AuthorAaron Shepard
Sadko the musician loved his city of Novgorod, the richest and most free in all Russia. With its great feasts, its white stone churches, its merchant visitors from many lands, Sadko felt there was no better place to be. Yet he was lonely too, for the rich young ladies who danced to his music would never favor...
The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring
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.

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