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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A story of desire, black magic and love interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true-life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who was banished from the court of Versailles by Louis XIV after a series of scandalous love affairs.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
After over a half century underground, the vampire Lestat awakens in the 1980s; becomes the leader of a rock band named Satan's Night Out; and searches for his own roots and the meaning of his immortality.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta "Bert" Monte receives a letter addressed to "Countess Alberta Montebianco" at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of...
11) Pinocchio
Publisher
Walt Disney Company
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The story, based upon a story by C. Collodi, of a puppet boy who lives with a shoemaker named Geppetto. Included are songs such as "When You Wish Upon a Star."
Series
Publisher
Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Strega Nona: "Never go near my cooking pot," warns old witch Strega Nona. But does Big Anthony listen? No!
Joseph had a little overcoat: Joseph loves his little overcoat, but it's getting old and worn. What can he do with it now?
Stone soup: When three soldiers come to town, all the townsfolk hide their food. If the soldiers can't find any food, what will they eat? Stone soup, of course!
13) The flying bed
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Book
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The greedy and self-centered king of Capri has a reversal of fortune when the wind blows all of his precious things into the backyard of a kind and generous Naples washerwoman, Mrs. Jewel.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
Publisher
Parragon Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With full page color illustrations from the Disney animated film of 1940, this is the story of Pinocchio, a puppet, Geppetto the toy store owner who created him, the Blue Fairy who brought the puppet to life and Jiminy Cricket who tells the story of their adventures.
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