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Fairest of All

You'll enjoy these titles because: they highlight books with a fairytale twist, featuring modern kids who enter classic fairy tales and alter the stories, often with a heap of humor or adventure.

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  • When Cinderella finds herself in the Beast's castle and Beauty finds herself in an evil stepmother's home, both princesses must find their ways back to the right story
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — J BUS
  • Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
    Book, 2015Los Angeles, California : New York : Disney/Hyperion, 2015. — J DEL
  • Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself…
    Book, 2017Los Angeles : Disney Press, [2017] — J DON
  • hrough the powers of a book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. Using a mysterious…
    Book, 2013New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — J COL
  • Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes,…
    Book, 2010New York : Dutton, 2010. — J GID
  • Brothers Grimm

    the Most Beloved Fairy Tales

    The Grimm brothers collected the most popular fairy tales of their time. This volume collects some of the most famous tales and invites you to enter the incredible world of fantasy.
    Book, 2019Milan, Italy : White Star Kids, [2019] — J 398.20943 GRI
  • The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
    Book, 1977[New York, New York] : Puffin Books, 1977. — J LIN
  • Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry…
    Book, 2015New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015. — J VER
  • With their magic being unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are sent to the upside-down magic room at Dunwiddle Magic School.
    Book, 2016New York, New York : Scholastic Inc., [2016] — J MLY
  • Eliza is transported to a world where flower fairies perch on every bloom, but things go awry after Eliza tries to pick a strange flower and her friend Poppy must rescue her before the Demon Wind steals the flower fairies' scents.
    Book, 2025Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025. — J MCD
  • When an alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical companion to Jack, a wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a blue jay and tree frog, must save the kingdom after the queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two others.
    Book, 2011New York : Harper, 2011, c2010. — J EPS
  • Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison is a completely average twelve-year-old: average height, average weight, average brown hair of average length, average brown skin and average hazel eyes. The only things about her that aren't average are her…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2015. — J CAB