Nick Page
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and his mother were very poor. One day Jack takes their only cow and sells it for handful of beans. His mother is very angry, and tells Jack to throw the beans out the window! By the next morning the magic beans have grown into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a large castle at the top. In the castle is a goose that lays golden eggs. Jack takes the goose, and sets off back down the beanstalk. A giant follows Jack. When...
4) Snow White
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest cottage of seven dwarfs. Includes a "ready to tell" section that asks children to rearrange scrambled episodes from the story and retell it, a picture dictionary of key words, a related activity, and notes for adults that provide background on the story and suggestions for encouraging children to read and discuss.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A little girl named Goldilocks takes a walk in woods and finds the house of the three bears. She eats their breakfast porridge, breaks a chair, and sleeps in baby bear's bed. When the three bears come home, they find Goldilocks still asleep in the bed and they frighten her away.
11) Cinderella
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tortured by her stepmother and stepsisters, a kind and wishful servant girl is swept away by a fairy godmother to a fancy ball and a chance encounter with a charming prince.
12) Sleeping beauty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the classic fairy tale in which a princess sleeps for a hundred years and is reawakened by a prince, and includes a picture dictionary and other resources for readers.
13) Rumpelstiltskin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A rhymed version of the tale in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king, on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Snowman wants nothing more than to come inside and play. But no matter where he goes, everything freezes. On Christmas Eve, the family are preparing for a Christmas party when disaster strikes! Can Mr. Snowman be the one to save the day? Have fun joining in with this festive tale and searching for Mr. Snowman as he hides around the house!
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's Cheesmas at Mouseton Abbey. And at Cheesmas, the Mouseton family pass around the Great Big Cheesy Diamond and everyone gets to make a wish. But this year, there's a problem. The house is clean, the feast is prepared, but the Diamond is missing! Join Lord Mouseton and his staff as they search for the missing diamond.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to a big old man in a red suit, a yule log and an obsession with the John Lewis advert? If the story of Christmas tells us one thing, it's that human beings are always inventing "ancient" traditions... Some of it is historical: 'Christians "stole" the date of Christmas from an existing Roman festival'; Some is folkloric: 'mistletoe is a druidic ritual'; Some to do with social history:...