You’ve heard the story a million times before. Cinderella (as if you didn’t already know) It is a journey that will teach Cassie the true meaning of love and family-and what it means to become an adult. Realizing she has the power to save her mother, Cassie makes her own deal with the bear and finds herself on a journey against time, traveling to a land east of the sun and west of the moon. But on her eighteenth birthday, the “fairy tale” comes true when the Polar Bear King comes to take Cassie for his bride. YAĬassie always told herself that her mother had been taken prisoner by trolls because of a deal she’d made with the Polar Bear King, a fairy tale to soothe a child whose mother had died. Try other Once Upon a Time series titles: Beauty Sleep, Before Midnight, Belle, The Storyteller’s Daughter, Wild Orchid, Winter’s Child and The World Above. If they fail to work together, Rue will remain cursed…forever. Even though the girls don’t get along, Rue and Rapunzel have exactly “two nights and the day that falls between” to break the enchantment. Sixteen years later, Melisande reveals that she has another daughter, Rue, who was cursed by a wizard. Horrified when Rapunzel is born bald with no hope of ever growing hair, she’s given to the sorceress. Will Emeralda regain her human form, or remain a frog forever? Read the entire Tales of a Frog Princess series! Jīefore Rapunzel’s birth, her mother made a deal with sorceress Melisande: if she could not love the newborn just as she appeared, she would surrender the baby. Working together, the two frogs must escape the swamp and reach the castle. Eventually the frog persuades Emeralda to give him a kiss, but instead of turning him into a prince, she becomes a frog!. One day she meets a talking frog who claims to be a prince. Shy and clumsy and facing an arranged marriage with a dull prince, Princess Emeralda hides out in the nearby swamp or escapes to the chambers of her aunt Grassina, who is a witch. Traditional and Modern re-tellings of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and more… If they have both, we have a copy in both collections! * * *

See if you still see fairy tales the same way, once you read the characters’ stories…īooks with a J at the end of the synopsis are in the Juvenile section of the library, books with a YA are in the Young Adult/Teen section. But each one features a re-telling of a classic.

Some are set in modern times, some in medieval times, and some in “once upon a time” times. But do you know the WHOLE story? Here are a few (okay, maybe more than a few) re-tellings of classic tales. Everyone THINKS they know everything about Snow White, Beauty, Cinderella and all the other characters that populate fairy tales.

The Swan Maiden by Heather Tomlinson