We’re celebrating Tell a Fairy Tale Day! In this post, you will find some classic fairy tales as well as new modern retelling of some of your favorites! Be sure to let us know which one you are most excited to read!!
Children’s Books
Picture books
Hansel and Gretel by Rachel Isadora
Endlessly Ever After by Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat
Knight Owl by Christopher Denise
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
After the Fall by Dan Santat
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! By Jon Scieszka
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya
Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Middleton Elya
The Three Little Tamales by Eric A. Kimmel
The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Ana Aranda
The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney
Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
Federico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez and Elisa Chavarri
Chapter books
Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chianani
Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy by Melissa De La Cruz
Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Whatever After series by Sarah Mlynowski
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
Red by Liesl Shurtliff
The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
Young Adult
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Ash by Malinda Lo
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
Snow White by Matt Phelan
Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Ngyuen
Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire
Lengendborn by Tracey Deonn
Adult
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Darling Girl Liz Michalski
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Kaikeyo by Vanishnavi Patel
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Tangled up in You by Christina Lauren
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong=
Cinderella is Dead by Kaylnn Bayon
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sara J. Maas
Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten
Kiss the Girls by Zoraida Cordova
If the Shoes fit by Julie Murphy
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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