Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Folk and Fairy Tales

Going into grades 3 | Going into grades 4–5 | Going into grades 6–8

Folk and fairy tales are old, traditional stories and legends that people of all cultures have shared with each new generation of readers and listeners.

Going into grade 3

Beginning Readers | Nonfiction

Beginning Readers

Black, Sonia.  The Little Mermaid.
Blackaby, Susan.  The Ugly Duckling.
Hautzig, Deborah.  Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.
Herman, Gail.  The Lion and the Mouse.
Law, Karina.  The Truth about Hansel and Gretel.
McDermott, Gerald.  The Fox and the Stork.
Mills, J. Elizabeth.  Beauty and the Beast.
Nash, Margaret.  The Princess and the Frog.
Orgel, Doris.  Next Time I Will: An Old English Tale.
Schecter, Ellen.  The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
Schwartz, Alvin.  There Is a Carrot in My Ear, and Other Noodle Tales.
Shub, Elizabeth.  Clever Kate.
Stevenson, Suçie.  The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Tarcov, Edith.  The Frog Prince.
Tolstoy, Alexei.  The Enormous Turnip.
Torres, Melissa.  Snow White.
Van Woerkom, Dorothy.  Abu Ali: Three Tales of the Middle East.
White, Mark.  The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable.
White, Mark.  The Lion and the Mouse: A Retelling of Aesop’s Fable.

Nonfiction

Adler, Naomi.  The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales from around the World. 
Andersen, Hans Christian.  The Ugly Duckling.
Arenson, Roberta.  Manu and the Talking Fish.
Aylesworth, Jim.  The Full Belly Bowl.
Aylesworth, Jim.  The Tale of Tricky Fox: A New England Trickster Tale.
Bania, Michael.  Kumak’s Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North.
Brill, Marlene Targ.  Tooth Tales from around the World.
Bruchac, Joseph.  How Chipmunk Got His Stripes: A Tale of Bragging and Teasing.
Demi.  The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey.
Demi. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale.
dePaola, Tomie.  Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story.
Ernst, Lisa Campbell.  The Three Spinning Fairies: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm.
Evetts-Secker, Josephine.  Little Red Riding Hood.
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm.  Rapunzel: A Fairy Tale.
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm.  The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Kellogg, Steven.  Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale.
Kimmel, Eric A.  Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock.
Kimmel, Eric A.  Cactus Soup.
LaMarche, Jim.  The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Lexau, Joan M.  Crocodile and Hen: A Bakongo Folktale.
Long, Laurel.  The Lady and the Lion.
MacDonald, Margaret.  Conejito:A Folktale from Panama.
MacDonald, Margaret.  Go to Sleep, Gecko! A Balinese Folktale.
McClintock, Barbara.  Cinderella.
Mills, Lauren A.  Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina.
Mitchell, Stephen.  The Tinderbox.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  The Brave Little Seamstress.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Kate and the Beanstalk.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Sleeping Bobby.
Powell, Patricia Hruby. Frog Brings Rain.
San Souci, Robert D.  Little Pierre: A Cajun Story from Louisiana.
San Souci, Robert D.  The Well at the End of the World.
Shah, Idries.  The Man with Bad Manners.
Shah, Idries.  The Old Woman and the Eagle.
Shah, Idries.  Fatima the Spinner and the Tent.
Shepard, Aaron.  King o’ the Cats.
Sierra, Judy.  Silly and Sillier: Read-Aloud Tales from around the World.  
Sloat, Teri.  Sody Sallyratus.
Tenggren, Gustaf.  Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights: The Most Famous Stories from the Great Classic "A Thousand and One Nights."
Tolstoy, Aleksei, and Niamh Sharkey.  The Gigantic Turnip.
Walker, Richard.  The Barefoot Book of Pirates.
Walker, Richard.  Jack and the Beanstalk.
Willard, Nancy.  Cinderella's Dress. 
Wright, Catherine.  Steamboat Annie and the Thousand-Pound Catfish.
Yep, Laurence.  The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale.

Going into grades 4–5

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Buckley, Michael.  The Sisters Grimm series.
Collodi, Carlo.  The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Coombs, Kate. The Runaway Princess.
Cooper, Susan.  The Magician's Boy.
Kaye, M. M.  The Ordinary Princess.
Mass, Wendy.  Rapunzel, the One with All the Hair.
Morgenstern, Susie Hoch.  Princesses Are People, Too: Two Modern Fairy Tales.
Swope, Sam.  Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants.

Nonfiction

Andersen, Hans Christian.  The Little Mermaid.
Andersen, Hans Christian.  The Wild Swans.
Artell, Mike.  Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood.
Batt, Tanya Robyn.  The Princess and the White Bear King.
Brucker, Meredith Babeaux.  Anklet for a Princess: A Cinderella Story from India.
Byrd, Robert.  Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife: A Giant of a Tale from Ireland.
Caduto, Michael J.  The Crimson Elf: Italian Tales of Wisdom.
Campoy, F. Isabel.  Tales our Abuelitas Told.
Dalton, Annie.  The Starlight Princess, and Other Princess Stories.
Daly, Ita.  Irish Myths and Legends.
Diakité, Baba Wagué.  The Hatseller and the Monkeys: A West African Folktale.
Doherty, Berlie.  The Famous Adventures of Jack.
Dorson, Mercedes.  Tales from the Rain Forest: Myths and Legends from the Amazonian Indians of Brazil.
Gilchrist, Cherry.  Stories from the Silk Road.
Hamilton, Virginia.  Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales.
Hasler, Eveline.  A Tale of Two Brothers.
Hawes, Louise.  Muti's Necklace: The Oldest Story in the World.
Hodges, Margaret, comp.  Hauntings: Ghosts and Ghouls from around the World.
Hooks, William H.  Moss Gown.
Krasno, Rena.  Cloud Weavers: Ancient Chinese Legends.
Larkspur, Penelope.  The Secret Life of Fairies.
Marcantonio, Patricia Santos.  Red Ridin' in the Hood, and Other Cuentos.
Matthews, Caitlin.  Celtic Memories. 
McCaughrean, Geraldine.  The Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the World.
Morpurgo, Michael.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Mutén, Burleigh.  Grandfather Mountain.
Pullman, Philip.  Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline.
Rogasky, Barbara.  The Water of Life: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm.
San Souci, Daniel.  In the Moonlight Mist: A Korean Tale.
San Souci, Robert D.  Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella.
Shannon, George.  Stories to Solve: Folktales from around the World.
Singh, Rina.  A Forest of Stories: Magical Tree Tales from around the World.
Van Laan, Nancy.  The Magic Bean Tree: A Legend from Argentina.
Van Laan, Nancy.  With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way down South.
Walker, Richard.  The Barefoot Book of Trickster Tales.
Ward, Helen.  Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop’s Fables.
Wisniewski, David.  Golem.
Yolen, Jane. Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters.
Zelinsky, Paul O.  Rapunzel.
Zeman, Ludmila.  Sindbad: From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights.