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1) Stone soup
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English
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Two hungry travelers use a stone as a soup starter and demonstrate the benefits of sharing. Includes a recipe for soup.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Overview: In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind. In this original trickster tale, Senor Calavera arrives unexpectedly at Grandma Beetle's door. He requests that she leave with him right away. "Just a minute," Grandma Beetle tells him. She still has one...
11) Hansel & Gretel
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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A simplified version of the traditional tale in which Hansel and Gretel become lost in the woods and find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
15) Rapunzel
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
17) Thistlefoot
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435 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Yaga siblings -- Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist -- have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited -- only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as...
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune. Includes historical notes on versions of this tale, other heroic stories, and alternate "ascension" tales.
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