Barrington Area Library

Teens' Catalog | Folk and Fairy Tales

Fiction | Nonfiction

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.

Fiction

Billingsley, Franny.  The Folk Keeper.
Calhoun, Dia.  The Phoenix Dance.
Datlow, Ellen, and Terri Windling, eds.  Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold.
Dokey, Cameron.  Golden.
Durst, Sarah Beth.  Into the Wild.
Ferris, Jean.  Once upon a Marigold.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Just Ella.
Hale, Shannon.  Book of a Thousand Days.
Hale, Shannon.  The Goose Girl.
Kindl, Patrice.  Goose Chase: A Novel.
Levine, Gail Carson.  Ella Enchanted.
Levine, Gail Carson.  Fairest.
Levine, Gail Carson.  Princess Tales series.
Lynn, Tracy.  Snow.
Marillier, Juliet.  Wildwood Dancing.
Martin, Rafe.  Birdwing.
McKinley, Robin.  Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast.
McKinley, Robin.  The Door in the Hedge. 
McKinley, Robin.  Rose Daughter.
McKinley, Robin.  Spindle's End.
Napoli, Donna Jo.  Beast.
Napoli, Donna Jo.  Bound.
Napoli, Donna Jo.  Zel.
Pattou, Edith.  East. 
Raven, Nicky.  Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes.
Regan, Dian Curtis.  Princess Nevermore.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de.  The Little Prince.
Schmidt, Gary D.  Straw into Gold.
Springer, Nancy.  Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest.
Stanley, Diane.  Bella at Midnight.
Thomson, Sarah L.  The Dragon's Son.
Tomlinson, Heather.  The Swan Maiden.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Curses, Inc., and Other Stories.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  The Rumpelstiltskin Problem.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird.
White, T. H.  The Sword in the Stone.
Wrede, Patricia C.  Enchanted Forest Chronicles series.
Yolen, Jane.  Troll Bridge: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale.

Nonfiction

Baynes, Pauline.  Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary.
Climo, Shirley.  A Treasury of Mermaids: Mermaid Tales from around the World.
Craft, Mahlon F.  Sleeping Beauty.
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm.  Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Hastings, Selina.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Hicks, Ray.  The Jack Tales.
Hodges, Margaret.  The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur.
Long, Laurel.  Lady and the Lion.
Martin, Rafe.  World Before This One: A Novel Told in Legend.
Matthews, Caitlin.  The Barefoot Book of Princesses.
Morpurgo, Michael.  Robin of Sherwood.
Oberman, Sheldon.  Solomon and the Ant, and Other Jewish Folktales.
Passes, David.  Dragons: Truth, Myth, and Legend.
Picard, Barbara Leonie.  The Midsummer Bride.
Pinkney, Jerry.  Aesop's Fables.
Riordan, James.  King Arthur.
San Souci, Robert D.  Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale.
San Souci, Robert D.  Young Guinevere.
San Souci, Robert D.  Young Merlin.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.  The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm.
Spariosu, Mihai.  Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves: Eerie Tales from Transylvania.
Wolkstein, Diane.  The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folktales.
Yolen, Jane.  The Fairies' Ring: A Book of Fairy Stories and Poems.
Yolen, Jane.  Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls.