Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Folk and Fairy Tales

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

Going into grade 3

Beginning Readers | Nonfiction

Beginning Readers

Black, Sonia.  The Little Mermaid.
Blackaby, Susan.  The Ugly Duckling.
Law, Karina.  The Truth about Hansel and Gretel.
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.
Tarcov, Edith.  The Frog Prince.
Tolstoy, Alexei.  The Enormous Turnip.
Torres, Melissa.  Snow White.
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

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.
Bruchac, Joseph.  How Chipmunk Got His Stripes: A Tale of Bragging and Teasing.
Casey, Dawn.  The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac.
Cech, John.  The Princess and the Pea.
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.
Fleischman, Paul.  Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella.
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm.  Rapunzel: A Fairy Tale.
Isadora, Rachel.  The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Kellogg, Steven.  Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale.
Kimmel, Eric A.  Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock.
LaMarche, Jim.  The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Long, Laurel.  The Lady and the Lion.
MacDonald, Margaret.  Conejito:A Folktale from Panama.
MacDonald, Margaret.  Go to Sleep, Gecko! A Balinese Folktale.
MacDonald, Margaret.  The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain.
McClintock, Barbara.  Cinderella.
Mitchell, Stephen.  The Tinderbox.
Myers, Tim.  The Out-Foxed Fox: Based on a Japanese Kyogen.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Kate and the Beanstalk.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Sleeping Bobby.
San Souci, Robert D.  Little Pierre: A Cajun Story from Louisiana.
San Souci, Robert D.  The Well at the End of the World.
Santore, Charles.  The Silk Princess.
Shah, Idries.  Fatima the Spinner and the Tent.
Sierra, Judy.  Silly and Sillier: Read-Aloud Tales from around the World.  
Smith, Chris.  One City, Two Brothers.
Tenggren, Gustaf.  Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights: The Most Famous Stories from the Great Classic "A Thousand and One Nights."
Walker, Richard.  The Barefoot Book of Pirates.
Walker, Richard.  Jack and the Beanstalk.
Willard, Nancy.  Cinderella's Dress. 

Going into grades 4–5

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Baker, E. D.  The Frog Princess.
Beck, Ian.  The Secret History of Tom Trueheart.
Buckley, Michael.  The Sisters Grimm series.
Collodi, Carlo.  The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Coombs, Kate. The Runaway Princess.
Cooper, Susan.  The Magician's Boy.
Gardner, Lyn.  Into the Woods.
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.

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.
Campoy, F. Isabel.  Tales our Abuelitas Told.
Dalton, Annie.  The Starlight Princess, and Other Princess Stories.
Daly, Ita.  Irish Myths and Legends.
de Paola, Tomie.  Tomie dePaola's Front Porch Tales & North Country Whoppers.
Diakité, Baba Wagué.  The Hatseller and the Monkeys: A West African Folktale.
Gilchrist, Cherry.  Stories from the Silk Road.
Hamilton, Virginia.  Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales.
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.
Larkspur, Penelope.  The Secret Life of Fairies.
Matthews, Caitlin.  Celtic Memories. 
Nanji, Shenaaz.  Indian Tales: A Barefoot Collection.
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.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.  The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm.
Shannon, George.  Stories to Solve: Folktales from around the World.
Shelby, Anne.  The Adventures of Molly Whuppie, and Other Appalachian Folktales.
Sugiura, Kuniko.  Indonesian Tales of Treasures and Brides.
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.