Giants! A Colossal Collection of Tales and Tunes
We all enjoy listening to Jim Weiss, and this particular CD about Giants has been a favorite of Ella's.
 | author: Jim Weiss rating:  asin: 1882513177 binding: Audio Cassette list price: $10.95 USD amazon price: $10.95 |
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature
This was one of the books my parents read to me as a child, and we occasionally read stories from it. Please note that some of these stories may be considered too scary for young children.
| author: bryna untermeyer rating:  asin: B000QYDNG8 binding: Hardcover |
My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World: A Russian Folk Tale
 | author: Becky Reyher Ruth Gannett rating:  asin: 0688512518 binding: Library Binding list price: $16.93 USD amazon price: $16.93 |
Cinderella
K.Y. Craft has richly illustrated this classic fairy tale. In fact of all the versions of Cinderella we've read, this is our favorite, it's so beautiful.
 | author: K. Y. Craft rating:  asin: 1587170043 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.61 USD |
This brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favorite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft's luminous paintings, inspired by the lavish artwork of late seventeenth-century France and embellished with extraordinary borders and ornamentation. Rich with radiant color and astonishing detail, here is a dream come true for anyone who has ever believed in living happily ever after.
The Gunniwolf
 | author: Wilhelmina Harper rating: asin: 0525467858 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $10.87 USD |
Wilhelmina Harper's The Gunniwolf is a classic-beloved by readers, storytellers, and teachers. Unavailable for years, it is back with fabulous new illustrations by Barbara Upton, perfect for our time. Its vibrant, rhythmic read-aloud text-sprinkled with dialect-tells the story of Little Girl, who is forbidden to enter the jungle for fear of meeting the Gunniwolf. But when she does, this version's Gunniwolf seems almost playful-if just a little scary. But Little Girl learns her lesson, and a new generation of listeners will be rapt with delight at this "guten sweeten" book.
The Language of Birds
 | rating: asin: 0399229256 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $15.99 |
Ivan and Vasilli are as different as brothers can be. When their father sends them out to prove themselves in the wide world, Vasilli is only out for himself, while Ivan approaches the future with a generous heart. When a thoughtful gesture saves the life of a baby bird, Ivan is granted a wish from the bird's mother--he is able to understand the language of birds. Vasilli mocks this humble gift even when he's warned of danger and his bullheadedness lands him in a dungeon. But Ivan comes to his rescue, freeing Vasilli and greatly impressing a princess at the same time.
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (Caldecott Honor Books)
The Japenese folk tale, The Boy of the Three Year Nap by Dianne Snyderwas read several times in our home in the past few weeks. This is the story of a lazy but clever boy, and his scheming mother.
 | author: Dianne Snyder rating: asin: 039566957X binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95 USD |
Lazy Taro gets his comeuppance.
Seven at One Blow: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm
The fairy tale Seven at One Blow retold by Eric A Kimmel has been read in our home several times this week. The illustrations are very engaging. This is a typical fairy tale, with 3 giants using iron bars to smash the bed that they think our hero is in and may other instances of peril. But our hero overcomesthem all with ridiculus confidence.
 | author: Eric A. Kimmel Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm rating: asin: 0823413837 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 |
Relates how a tailor who kills seven flies at one blow manages to become king.
Six Swans: A Folktale
This is a gorgeously illustrated book, a kinder version of the tale.
 | author: Christine San Jose Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm rating: asin: 1590780566 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $13.22 USD |
Russian Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
This collection of classic Russian fairy tales is fascinating. Expect this book to be as violent as other classic fairy tales, complete with witches that threaten to eat you if you don't do her chores, heros that get cut up in pieces but somehow come back to life, evil step mothers and step sisters are burnt to ashes from a glowing skull, and so on. There aren't too many pictures, but the ones they do have are exquisite. This was a favorite of our (then) 5 year old, who was particularly fond of the tale "Vassilissa the Beautiful and the Witch Baba Yaga", which I think I've read over a dozen times.
 | author: Gillian Avery Ivan Bilibin rating: asin: 0679436413 binding: Hardcover list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD |
Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include "The Frog Princess," "Vassilissa the Beautiful," and "The White Duck." Though Russian Fairy Tales in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.
