What are fairy tales?
What are fairy tales?
Want to read on a device or need something right away without stopping at the library?
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought."
Sora is our reading app available for free through the school district.
This can be used all year long, even when students are on break. It can be used on any smart device or computer. The link is available above when you click on
"online reading"
"Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom."
Graphic Novels
This graphic novel has several different favorite fairytales, and some that you might not have heard of, including:
Hansel and Gretel
Puss in Boots
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White
Rumpelstiltskin
Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
And Rapunzel is reimagined by beloved author
Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Guts, Drama, Baby Sitter's Club).
"A first of two graphic novels that retell the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" depicts a boy from a single-parent home who, at the urging of an autistic sibling, trades in the family car for a box of magic beans, sparking a magical adventure involving onion babies, biting cabbages and a fiery dragon."
"A conclusion to the story that began in Mighty Jack finds Jack and Lilly traveling through the magic portal when Jack's little sister, Maddy, is carried off by an ogre into another realm."
Novels (Longer reads)
"Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life."
"For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of rats threatens her small suburban town and the mystery of her birthright grows, Annie--caught in a cycle of purging her misdeeds--begins to stop growing. It is only when she travels to her family's home country of Litvania to learn more about the burna that Annie uncovers the magnitude of the truth"
"Placed in a deep sleep along with the rest of the kingdom by her beautiful sister’s sleeping curse, a younger sibling awakens to a harrowing truth that nobody else believes, forcing her to embark on a quest to save her loved ones."
Easy Reads/Picture books
"The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty."
"A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life they share everything, until the husband discovers a pot with magical powers buried under the very last potato in the garden."
"A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess."
Picture books with English and Spanish words
"Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother. Presented in English and Spanish."
"A boy trades a cow for some magic beans instead of selling it and finds himself battling a giant atop an incredibly tall beanstalk, discovering an unexpected way to help his family along the way. Presented in English and Spanish."
"A non-violent retelling of the familiar story about three little pigs who outwit a hungry wolf. Presented in English and Spanish."
Poetry
Mirror Mirror : A Book of Reversible Verse
by Marilyn Singer
"A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature."
Makerspace Activity
Create an enchanted fairytale flower.
You need:
4 pipe cleaners- 1 green for the leaves
3 of the same color for the flower
"She’s young, she’s rich, she’s available – too bad she has a pig’s nose. Christina Ricci and James McAvoy team in a modern fairy tale about finding perfect love, imperfections and all." rated PG
The Kanopy streaming service
is available for free through the
Tom Green County Library System
Your log in for the county library website is your library card number and your password is the first three letters of your last name in lowercase.
ex. Smith password would be smi
Fairytale Crossword Website
Want to write your own Fairy Tale?