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Princess Stories - Non-fiction (Picture Book Folklore)

Beauty and the beast
ISBN: 0899194974
Title: Beauty and the beast by Jan Brett - Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast
Author: Brett, Jan, 1949-
Book cover for The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
Title: The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo - In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen
Author: Climo, Shirley.
Book cover for The Korean Cinderella by Shirley Climo
Title: The Korean Cinderella by Shirley Climo - In this version of Cinderella set in ancient Korea, Pear Blossom, a stepchild, eventually comes to be chosen by the magistrate to be his wife
Author: Climo, Shirley.
Adelita
ISBN: 0399238662
Title: Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story by Tomie dePaola - After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta
Author: De Paola, Tomie.
Sleeping Beauty
ISBN: 9780735840874
Title: Sleeping Beauty by Maja Dusíková - Retells the story of a wicked fairy who casts a spell that dooms a princess to sleep for one hundred years
Author: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.
The sleeping beauty
ISBN: 0316387029
Title: The sleeping beauty by Trina Schart Hyman - Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years
Author: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.
Snow White
ISBN: 0316354503
Title: Snow White by Paul Heins - Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony
Author: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.
Kongi and Potgi
ISBN: 0803715722
Title: Kongi and Potgi : a Cinderella story from Korea by Oki S. Han - Although Kongi is treated unfairly by her stepmother and stepsister, she proves she is worthy to become the Prince's bride
Author: Han, Oki S.
Book cover for The golden slipper : a Vietnamese legend by Darrell Lum
ISBN: 0816734054
Title: The golden slipper : a Vietnamese legend by Darrell Lum - A variation on the Cinderella story, in which a kind-hearted young woman meets her prince with the help of animals she has befriended
Author: Lum, Darrell H.Y.
The way meat loves salt
ISBN: 0805043845
Title: The way meat loves salt : a Cinderella tale from the Jewish tradition by Nina Jaffe - In this Eastern European Jewish variant of the Cinderella story, the youngest daughter of a rabbi marries the son of a scholar thanks to the help of Prophet Elijah
Author: Jaffe, Nina.
The rough-face girl
ISBN: 0613086767
Title: The rough-face girl by Rafe Martin - In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being
Author: Martin, Rafe, 1946-
Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
ISBN: 0684126761
Title: Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper by Marcia Brown - Cindrella is abused and exploited by her stepmother and stepsisters after her father's remarriage, but she is able to attend a royal ball with the help of her fairy godmother
Author: Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Book cover for Cendrillon : a Caribbean Cinderella
Title: Cendrillon : a Caribbean Cinderella by Robert D. San Souci - A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love
Author: San Souci, Robert D.
Book cover for Yeh Shen : a Cinderella story from China by Ai-Ling Louie
Title: Yeh Shen : a Cinderella story from China by Ai-Ling Louie - A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince
Author: Louie, Ai-Ling.
Rapunzel
ISBN: 0525456074
Title: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky - Retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress
Author: Zelinsky, Paul O.
The frog princess
ISBN: 0823416186
Title: The frog princess : a Tlingit legend from Alaska by Eric A. Kimmel - After rejecting all of her human suitors, the beautiful daughter of a Tlingit tribal leader declares that she would rather marry a frog from the lake
Author: Kimmel, Eric A.
The princess and the warrior
ISBN: 9781419721304
Title: The princess and the warrior : a tale of two volcanoes by Duncan Tonatiuh - This reimagining of one of Mexico's cherished legends shares the story of how two volcanoes formed from the love and devotion between a warrior and his princess
Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan, author, illustrator.