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Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Tales of adventure and romance include warriors, magicians, chiefs, princesses, and forest beasts. They are excellent sources of legends for language arts curriculum in the schools and should stimulate all readers of Indian culture.
Author
Series
Books of nine lives volume 8
Publisher
August House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of nine traditional tales of fright from various parts of the world, including Japan, Uruguay, and others.
45) Red Riding Hood
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.
Mother always told Red Riding Hood not to talk to strangers. But the wolf she met on the way to Granny's was so charming and urbane. What could be the harm of telling him that she was on her way to Granny's pretty yellow house on the other side of the woods? Who could be a better escort than the big-eyed, long armed, big-toothed wolf?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of a well-known tale, Serafina Sow starts her own waffle-selling business in order to enable her three offspring to prepare for the future, which includes an encounter with a surly wolf.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 910L
Language
English
Description
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit ... and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant, Butterball, The Boy and the North Wind, The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain, The Sailors and the Troll, The Eating Competition, and The Troll with No Heart in His Body.
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of an ancient Japanese tale in which an old bamboo cutter and his wife raise the beautiful baby he found in the trunk of a tree, only to learn, once Kaguya is grown, that she is a lady of the moon and must return home.