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Fairy Tales. 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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1 Fairy Tales

2 What are Fairy Tales? Stories for children that come from oral storytelling tradition Old stories that tell of mans problems, fears and hopes

3 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

4 Magical Characters

5 Magical Settings

6 Magic or Enchantment

7 Good versus Evil

8 Teach Lessons

9 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

13 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

14 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.

15 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

16 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

17 Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate.

18 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

19 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

20 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

21 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

22 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.

23 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

24 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

25 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

26 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

27 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

28 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

29 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

30 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

31 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

32 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

33 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

34 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

35 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

36 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

37 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

38 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

39 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

40 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


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