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3) Rapunzel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note that traces the Italian, French, and German origins of the story, and discusses the author's decision to mimic the style of Italian Renaissance art in his illustrations.
Author
Series
Ping (Demi) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain. Retells the traditional tale about three billy goats who trick a troll that lives under the bridge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
12) Stone Soup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How can a hungry young traveler trick an uncooperative old lady into feeding him dinner? He offers to teach her to make stone soup-soup started from a stone. As more ingredients are added to the soup, the old lady and the traveler look forward to a wonderful meal. Fancy that!
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of a Japanese folktale in which a feudal lord seeks a samurai cat to rid his castle of a savage rat, but soon discovers that violence is not always the best way to accomplish things.
18) Seven blind mice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.