Trina Schart Hyman
21) Canterbury tales
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Several of the popular stories are retold with handsome illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Beautiful edition of selected stories including: The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. In 1386, Chaucer recorded, or created, the stories spun by 30 pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Cohen and Hyman have responded to Chaucer's masterpiece with lively prose and unforgettable pictures that evoke the colorful world of 14th-century England....
23) Snow White
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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
27) Swan lake
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A prince's love for a swan queen overcomes an evil sorcerer's spell in this fairy tale adaptation of the classic ballet.
29) Bearskin
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A brave young man who has been raised by a bear with unusual powers rescues a princess from a menacing dragon and fulfills a long-ago prophecy that he would marry the king's daughter.
32) King Stork
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The King of the Storks grants the drummer three wishes for carrying him across the river.
33) Tight times
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A small boy, not allowed to have a dog because times are tight, finds a starving kitten in a trash can on the same day his father loses his job.
36) Witch poems
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Eighteen poems about witches by L. Frank Baum, e.e. cummings, Eleanor Farjeon, and others.