The Sisters Grimm Series (By Michael Buckley)
There are 7 vitabu in the series:
-The Fairy-Tale Detectives
-The Unusual Suspects
-The Problem Child
-Once Upon a Crime
-Magic and Other Misdemeanors
-Tales from the kofia
-The Everafter War
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Here is a summary of the first book:
In Book One of the series, we meet two sisters, Sabrina and Daphne, who have been sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. From their first siku in Ferryport Landing, the sisters begin to unravel a mystery that reveals a family secret. Sabrina and Daphne learn they are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, whose famous book of fairy tales is actually a history book. Snow White, the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf—they're all alive and now neighbors of Granny Relda in this community of Everafters, as magical folks like to be called.
But life is not a fairy tale in Ferryport Landing. Someone has set a giant loose on the town, and it's up to the sisters Grimm to stop the giant and find the Everafter behind its murderous rampage. Is it Mayor Charming, formerly Prince Charming, who may have plans to get his kingdom back? au Jack, the erstwhile giant killer, now working at the Big & Tall store?
My Opinion: The onyesha Once Upon A Time slightly reminds me of this series. If wewe do not want a serious read it is nice. There are some dramatic moments and some interesting twists with the fairytale characters, but it does seemed geared toward a zaidi juvenile crowd. Maybe 9 to 13 yr olds would enjoy them more.
Princess School series (by Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens)
The Princess School series kwa Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens features Ella, Snow, Rapunzel, and Rose as they attend princess school. They become Marafiki and face challenges with their many adventures. There are 7 vitabu in the series:
1: If the Shoe Fits
2: Who's the Fairest?
3: Let Your Hair Down
4: Beauty is a Beast
5: Princess Charming
6: Apple-y Ever After
7: Thorn In Her Side
My Opinion: I found these vitabu nice light entertainment and I enjoyed seeing some of the fairytale princesses in school together and being friends. This is another Juvenile series that I could see even 9 au 10 yr olds enjoying.
Mercedes Lackey...I upendo this Author! She has writes some of my inayopendelewa ndoto vitabu and she has done some wonderful retold fairytales! I especially upendo two of her series!
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Five Hundred Kingdoms
-The Fairy Godmother
-One Good Knight
-Fortune's Fool
-The Snow Queen
-The Sleeping Beauty
-Beauty and the Werewolf (really, really want to read this)
My Opion: These are not necessarily a fairy tale retold, but a mash up of fairytales in a fairytale world. It is zaidi adult oriented and a lot zaidi serious then the first ones I listed. But I upendo her style!
Elemental Masters
-The moto Rose (Beauty and the Beast)
-The Serpent's Shadow
-The Gates of Sleep
-Phoenix And Ashes
-Wizard of London
-Reserved for the Cat
-Unnatural Issue (I have not read this one yet but want to)
-Home from the Sea (this one has not came out yet)
My Opinion: Each of these is a different fairytale retold and some are easier picked out then others. I enjoyed them all, but once again they are very serious and very adult oriented.
Alex Flinn: She is a good mwandishi of a few Fairytales that I have read. One of the vitabu was made into a movie kwa the same name: Beastly. I have not read all her books, but I have read these:
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-Cloaked
A poor shoe repair guy finds adventure and romance with a beautiful princess, six talking swans, two giants, and one magical cloak.
-A Kiss in Time
Sleeping Beauty wakes up in the twenty-first century and goes to South beach, pwani in this humorous fish-out-of-water romance
-Beastly
Ever wonder what it was like for the Beast? Find out in this contemporary retelling.
My Opinion: I have read zaidi interesting books, but they were okay. They were fine amusement and I read through them pretty quickly. I would say junior high and high schooler's would enjoy them as well.
Once Upon A Time novels:
Once Upon A Time is a series of novels published kwa Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster[1]. The Once Upon A Time novels are usually new retellings of fairy tales featuring a teenaged heroine. Some of the recurring themes and subjects in the vitabu are romance, magic, fantasy, intrigue, finding true love, and good conquering over evil in the end.
-The Storyteller's Daughter kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of The Arabian Nights, published September 2002)
-Beauty Sleep kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of
Sleeping Beauty, published December 2002)
-Snow kwa Tracy Lynn (A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, published February 2003)
-Midnight Pearls kwa Debbie Viguie (A Retelling of The Little Mermaid, published June 2003)
-Scarlet Moon kwa Debbie Viguie (A Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, published April 2004)
-Sunlight and Shadow kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of The Magic Flute, published July 2004)
-Spirited kwa Nancy Holder (A Retelling of Last of the Mohicans and Beauty and the Beast, published November 2004)
-The Night Dance kwa Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, published November 2005)
-Golden kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Rapunzel, published February 2006)
-Water Song kwa Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of The Frog Prince, published October 2006)
-Before Midnight kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Cinderella, published March 2007)
-The Rose Bride kwa Nancy Holder (A Retelling of The White and the Black Bride, published June 2007)
-The Crimson Thread kwa Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, published June 2008)
-Belle kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, published November 2008)
-Wild Orchid kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan, published February, 2009)
-The Diamond Secret kwa Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of Anastasia, published June 2, 2009)
-Winter's Child kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of The Snow Queen, published September 8, 2009)
-Violet Eyes kwa Debbie Viguié (A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea, published February 23, 2010)
-The World Above kwa Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood, published June 8, 2010)
My Opinion: I have not read all of these, but have read most of them. They are very interesting and I would say high school age and up would enjoy them. They are all from different authors and done in different styles, so if wewe do not like one it does not mean wewe would not like one of the others.
Gregory Maguire: He wrote the book Wicked about the Witch from the Wizard of OZ, but he has written some retold fairytales too.
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Confessions on an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella retold) my opinion: I found this book very dark and a bit disturbing)
Mirror Mirror (Snow white retold) my opinion: I can not remember what I thought of this book, but I have found all his vitabu Dark and disturbing.
Mette Harrison:
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I have only read this one, but there are other fairytales kwa this mwandishi at the site above.
Mira, Mirror
wewe know the mirror from the Snow White fairy tale. au do you? One hundred years later, she is still hanging on that wall. This is her quest to be human again.
My opinion: This was a twisted and kind of sad book. I found myself feeling sorry for the mirror. It was a quick read and a juvenile read.
Robin McKinley
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She has written some very good ndoto vitabu and some are retold fairytales:
Spindle's End
All the creatures of forest, field and riverbank knew the baby was special. She was the princess Briar-Rose, cursed kwa the evil fairy Pernicia on her name-day. But Katriona aliiba her away to the small village where Kat lives with her aunt, and they raise the princess as if she were their own. No other human, not even Rosie herself, knows her true identity.
But Pernicia is looking for her, and two village vichimbakazi and all the wanyama in the realm may not be enough to save her.
Rose Daughter
When their father's business fails, three sisters songesha to a tiny neglected cottage far away from anything they have ever known. Beauty tends the awkward, unknown, thorny plants that surround it, and when they bloom the following summer an old woman tells her: "Roses are for love. Not silly sweethearts' upendo but the upendo that makes wewe and keeps wewe whole . . . there aren't many roses around any zaidi because they need zaidi upendo than people have to give them to make them flower."
And when Beauty takes her father's place at the terrifying Beast's palace she discovers that the Beast's beloved rose garden is dying.
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are beautiful. But what she lacks in looks she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes nyumbani with the tale of an Enchanted ngome in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty declares she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will.
My opinion: I can not remember what I thought of these particular books. But I believe I enjoyed them.
Gail Carson Levine
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-Ella Enchanted (Cinderella retold)
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-Fairest (Snow White retold)
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My opinion: These vitabu were amusing and interesting. A great read for Juvenile girls.
Sorry this is all I can remember at this time. I hope wewe find this orodha informative and I also hope wewe will pick up some of these vitabu and enjoy them as much as I did!
