Fairy Tales

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Fairy Tales
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What are Fairy Tales?

• Stories for children that come from oral
  storytelling tradition
• Old stories that tell of mans problems, fears
  and hopes

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Elements of a Fairy Tale

• Contains magic or enchantment in characters, plot
  or settings
• May contain characters such as fairies, witches,
  elves, pixies, magicians, fairy godparents etc.

• Good versus Evil
• May teach a moral lesson

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Magical Characters
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Magical Settings
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Magic or Enchantment
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Good versus Evil
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Teach Lessons
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Popular Fairy Tales

• Sleeping Beauty
• Cinderella
• Rapunzel
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Snow White
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Frog Prince
• Red Riding Hood

• Hansel and Gretel
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Snow Queen
• Thumbelina
• The Emperors New Clothes
• The Real Princess

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An illustrated retelling of the classic tale
about a boy named Jack who uses his quick wits to
outsmart a giant and make a fortune for himself
and his widowed mother. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.1 Point Value 0.5
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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. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.6 Point Value 0.5
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter
spin straw into gold for the king on the
condition that she will give him her first-born
child. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.0 Point Value 0.5
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A retelling of the well-known tale in which two
children are left in the woods but find their way
home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.3 Point
Value 0.5
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Although she is mistreated by her stepmother and
stepsisters, a kind-hearted young woman manages
to attend the palace ball with the help of her
fairy godmother.
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A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy
Peg, a witch who has changed them into different
kinds of food. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 3.2 Point Value 0.5
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Through her great capacity to love, a kind and
beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from
the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.3 Point
Value 0.5
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Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her
golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more
suitable mate.
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On her way to deliver a basket of food to her
sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly
wolf. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.4 Point Value 0.5
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The queen has a plan to help the prince find a
real princess to marry. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 1.8 Point Value 0.5
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An illustrated retelling of the fairy tale in
which a jealous queen attempts to kill her
beautiful stepdaughter and is thwarted on every
try. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.1 Point Value 0.5
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A beautiful and beloved princess, cursed by the
one fairy who was not invited to her christening,
pricks her finger on her sixteenth birthday and
falls asleep for one hundred years. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 6.1 Point Value 0.5
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Fractured Fairy Tales
When authors modernize or change one or more of
the elements of the story, the story is called a
fractured fairy tale.
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Based on "Cinderella," this story is set in
Texas, the fairy godmother is a cow, and the
hero, named Bubba, is the stepson of a wicked
rancher. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.8 Point Value 0.5
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A rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman
who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite
the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main
characters are skeletons. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.2 Point Value 0.5
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Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamond spurs at the
square dance in this wild western retelling of
the classic Cinderella story. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.0 Point Value 0.5
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A Spanish American retelling of the familiar
story of a kind girl who is mistreated by her
jealous stepmother and stepsisters. In this
version, the Virgin Mary replaces the traditional
fairy godmother. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 4.6 Point Value 0.5
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Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one
bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the
king, who is choosing a wife Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.3 Point Value 0.5
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A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale
set in the Caribbean and narrated by the
godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.7 Point
Value 0.5
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A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of
her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride
of a prince. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.0 Point Value 0.5
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After the death of her mother and father, Adelita
is badly mistreated by her stepmother and
stepsisters until she finds her own true love at
a grand fiesta. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 3.3 Point Value 0.5
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Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live next door to
each other, each with a cruel stepmother and
stepsisters, have different approaches to life.
Although both end up with the princes of their
dreams, one is a great deal happier than the
other. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.5 Point Value 0.5
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A girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk,
where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant
and make her and her mother's fortune.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.6 Point
Value 0.5
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After the frog turns into a prince, he and the
Princess do not live happily ever after and the
Prince decides to look for a witch to help him
remedy the situation. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 3.2 Point Value 0.5
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A collection of nine familiar fractured tales
including Little Red Riding Hood, Princess and
the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the Ugly
Duckling. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.4 Point Value 0.5
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In this African American retelling of
"Rumpelstiltskin," Lit'mahn spins thread into
gold cloth for the king's new bride.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.3 Point
Value 0.5
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In this Cajun version of "Little Red Riding
Hood," the big bad gator is no match for a sharp
young girl and her quick-thinking
cat. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.9 Point Value 0.5
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In this Indonesian version of the Cinderella
story, a girl named Damura escapes her cruel
stepmother and stepsister and marries a handsome
prince with the help of Grandmother Crocodile.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.4 Point
Value 0.5
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The adventures of Little Pierre are based on the
stories of Little Tom Thumb. A very tiny but
clever boy outwits his older brothers, an ogre,
an alligator, and a giant catfish to rescue a
rich man's daughter in this Cajun version of a
French fairy tale. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 4.0 Point Value 0.5
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This version of the familiar story in which a
mistreated step-child finds happiness with the
"man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth
forest and features Bigfoot characters.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.3 Point
Value 0.5
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With a "Hot diggety-dog!" and a wave of his white
sombrero, cowboy Joe Cinders gets the girl in
this Southwestern retelling of the Cinderella
story. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.4 Point Value 0.5