Variations on Favorite Stories

Perfect for fans of Erin Stead and Emily Winfield Martin, here is a charming picture book about two friends who enter a fairytale world hoping to find an exciting story to tell. When best friends Fern, a bear, and Otto, a cat, go searching for an exciting story in the forest, they have different ideas about what that means. Fern thinks they should stop and watch a race between a tortoise and a hare, but Otto worries a tortoise is too slow to be exciting. Fern thinks the three brothers talking about how to build a house is incredibly interesting, but Otto isn't convinced. Along the way, the two friends meet a little girl in red who is off to visit her grandmother (and a wolf headed the same way!); a cranky girl complaining that her porridge isn't the right temperature; and many others. But it's not until they run into a big scary witch that they both can agree that this is not the kind of excitement they had in mind. With irresistible illustrations and tons of charming details, this is a delightful fantasy adventure that proves the best adventures are the ones you share.

A collection of short poems called reversos which, when reversed, provide new perspective on the fairy tale characters.
Features Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, and more!

A collection of short poems called reversos which, when reversed, provide new perspective on the fairy tale characters.
Features the Princess and the Pea, Puss in Boots, the Three Little Pigs, the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and more!

Every story, every person, and every thing started somewhere. Find out what all of your favorite fairy tale characters were up to previously...
Features Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and more!

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As a narrator begins telling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Papa develops Page Fright, is unable to say his lines, and runs away through other books."

Chef William thinks the land of Fairy Tales could use a little spicing up...
Features Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and more!

Five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora.
Features Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, Humpty Dumpty, Snow White, and Jack and the Beanstalk

Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library -- a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection, where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast in the blink of an eye, Snow White's stepmother's sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the magical objects start disappearing, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she's accused of the crime -- or captured by the thief.

Once upon a time, a strung-out match girl sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped Daddy's clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear out their shoes. Bluebeard's latest wife discovered she'd married a serial killer. And Little Red confessed she kind of wanted to know what it's like to be swallowed whole. Find out what really happened to all those wolves and maidens, ogres and orphans, kings and piglets of fairy tales and about the Ever After.