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WONDER TALES [wishes, magic, dreams, transformations, supernatural]

Magic: Supernatural Adversaries

(ogres, dragons, giants, dwarf, witch, devil)[AT 300-399]

• JACK TALES
  
  
  • Jack and the * Beanstalk [England] VARIANTS *
  • Beneduce, Ann Keay. Jack and the Beanstalk. NY: Philomel Books, 1999. (32 ps.)[ENGLAND]
  • Birdseye, Tom. Look Out, Jack! The Giant Is Back!. NY: Holiday House, 2001. (unp) (Jack and the Beanstalk variant)
  • Briggs, Raymond. Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • Briggs, Raymond. Jim and the Beanstalk. [ENGLAND]
  • Compton, Kenn. Jack the Giant Chaser: An Appalachian Tale. [APPALACHIA]
  • Crump, Fred. Jamako and the Beanstalk.
  • de Regniers, Beatrice. Jack the Giant Killer.
  • Galdone, Paul. The History of Mother Twaddle and the Marvelous Achievements of her Son Jack. NY: Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books, 1974. (32 ps.) [ENGLAND]
  • Galdone, Paul. Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • Haley, Gail. Jack and the Bean Tree. NY: Crown, 1986. (48 ps.) [APPALACHIAN America]
  • Kellogg, Steven. Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • Napoli, Donna Jo. Crazy Jack. NY: Delacorte Press, 1999. (134 ps.) [ENGLAND] (Jack searches for his father, falls in love with Flora, learns the value of real treasure)
  • Osborne, Mary Pope. Kate and the Beanstalk. NY:: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. (36 ps.) [ENGLAND] (girl hero)(Jack and the Beanstalk variant)
  • Still, James. Jack and the Wonder Beans. NY: Putnam, 1977. (31 ps.)
  • Walker, Richard. Jack and the Beanstalk. NY: Barefoot Books, 1999. (40 ps.)
  • Wells, Rosemary. Jack and the Beanstalk. NY: DK Pub., 1997. (unp.) [ENGLAND] (boy, beanstalk, giant, outwit)
  
  
  
• San Souci, Robert D. The Boy and the Ghost. [Southern states, Virginia/Alabama](ghost)
• Hansel and Gretel. (witch)
• Rapunzel. (dwarf)
• San Souci, Robert D. Nicholas Pipe. [12th century merman folklore]
  
  
• The Three Little Pigs [England] variant * (wolf)
  
  
  • The Three Little Pigs. (wolf)
  • Hooks, William. The Three Little Pigs and the Fox: An Appalachian Tale. (wolf)
  • Meddaugh, Susan. Hog-Eye. (wolf)
  • Scieszka, Jon. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. (wolf)
  • Lowell, Susan. Three Little Javelinas. (wolf)
  • Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs. (wolf)
  
  
  
• Little Red Riding Hood VARIANTS (glutton wolf)
  
  
  • Galdone, Paul. Little Red Riding Hood. [FRANCE] (glutton wolf)
  • Collins, Sheila Hebert. Petite Rouge: A Cajun Twist to an Old Tale. [LOUISIANA]
  • Marshall, James. Red Riding Hood.
  • Minard, Rosemary. The Chinese Red Riding Hoods in Womenfold and Fairy Tales. [CHINA]
  • Young, Ed. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China. [CHINA] [1990 Caldecott]
  • Little Red Cap.
  • McKissack, Patricia. Flossie and the Fox.
  
  
  
• Six Little Goats. (glutton wolf)
• Zemach, Harve. Duffy and the Devil: A Cornish Tale. [ENGLAND] [1974 Caldecott Medal Award]

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Magic: Supernatural or Enchanted Husband (Wife) or Other Relatives

[AT 400-459]

• Sleeping Beauty.
• Beauty and the Beast. [FRANCE]
• The Frog King.
• The Wishes.
• The House in the Wood.
• Frau Holle.
• Seven Ravens.
• Jorinda and Joringel.

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Magic: Superhuman Tasks [AT 460-499]

• The Journey in Search of Fortune.
• The Bridge to the Other World.
• The Spinning-woman by the Spring.

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Magic: Supernatural Helpers [AT 500-559]

• CINDERELLA [France] (Online 1 and 2 stories)
  
  
  • Cinderella VARIANTS [Inquiry Unlimited's * comparative chart by country]
    • Aschenputtel [ENGLAND]
    • Canadian Native American Cinderella *
    • Cenerentola. [ITALY]
    • Boada, Francesc. Cinderella=Cenicienta. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. (unp.) [SPAIN](bilingual version of Cinderella)
    • Climo, Shirley. Egyptian Cinderella. NY: Crowell, 1989. (32 ps.) [EGYPT] (Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen)
    • Climo, Shirley. The Irish Cinderlad. NY: HarperCollins, 1996. [IRELAND] (Cinderella variant with Becan, stepmother, stepsisters, princess, magical bull)
    • Climo, Shirley. Korean Cinderella. NY: HarperCollins, 1993. (unp.) [KOREA] (Pear Blossom, a stepchild, comes to be chosen by the magistrate to be his wife)
    • Climo, Shirley. The Persian Cinderella. NY:HarperCollins, 1999. (unp.) [IRAN] (Settareh and her stepmother)
    • Coburn, Jewell Reinhart. Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition. Auburn, CA: Shen's Books, 2000. (32 ps.) [MEXICO] (Cinderella variant gaining the love of the governor's son)
    • Coburn, Jewell Reinhart. Jouanah, the Hmong Cinderella. Arcadia, California: Shen's Books, 1996. (Cinderella variant in the Hmong culture)
    • Cohlene, Terri. Little Firefly: An Algonquin Legend. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Corporation, 1990. [ALGONQUIN] (how a young girl, badly mistreated by her sisters, becomes the bridge of the great hunter as the Invisible One.
    • Cole, Babette. Prince Cinders. NY: Putnam, 1987. (32 ps.) (a fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco)
    • Compton, Joanne. Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale. NY: Holiday House, 1994. [APPALACHIA] (old Granny helps Ashpet attend the church picnic)
    • Daly, Jude. Fair, Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story. NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. (unp.) [IRELAND] (Cinderella variant)
    • Greaves, Margaret. Tattercoats. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1990. (26 ps.) [ENGLAND] (poor Tattercoats marries the Prince)
    • Hickox, Rebecca. The Golden Sandal. NY: Holiday House, 1998. [IRAQ] (Cinderella variant - "Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold")
    • Hooks, William. Moss Gown. NY: Clarion Books, 1987. (48 ps.) [NORTH CAROLINA] (Candace is banished from her father's plantation; meets Prince Charming)
    • Jackson, Ellen. Cinder Edna. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1994. (unp.) (Cinderella variant)
    • Kilgras, Heidi. Cinderella's Countdown to the Ball. NY: Random House, 2001. [counting book]
    • Louie, Ai-Ling. Yeh-Shen, A Cinderella Tale from China. NY: Philomel Books, 1982. (31 ps.) [CHINA] (Cinderella variant)
    • Martin, Rafe. Rough-Face Girl. NY: Putnam, 1992. [NATIVE AMERICAN] (ALGONQUIN INDIAN Cinderella variant)
    • Minters, Frances. Cinder-Elly. NY: Viking, 1994. (unp.) [Cinderella variant, rap version]
    • Myers, Bernice. Sidney Rella and the Glass Sneaker. NY: Macmillan, 1985. (32 ps.) (Sidney Rella becomes a football player with help from his fairy godfather)
    • Perlman, Janet. Cinderella Penguin, or, The Glass Flipper. NY: Viking, 1992.
    • Phumla. Nomi and the Magic Fish: A Story from Africa. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. (30 ps.) [AFRICA - ZULU] (Cinderella variant of the Zulus)
    • Pollock, Penny. The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella. Boston: Little Brown, 1995. [ZUNI]
    • San Souci, Robert D. Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. [CARIBBEAN] (Creole Cinderella variant)
    • San Souci, Robert D. Cinderella Skeleton. San Diego: Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2000. (unp.) [UNITED STATES] (Cinderella variant at the Halloween Ball)
    • San Souci, Robert. Sootface: An Ojibwe Cinderella Story. NY: Doubleday Book for Young Readers, 1994. [OJIBWA] (mistreated by two older sisters; mighty invisible warrior for her husband)
    • San Souci, Robert. Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989. (32 ps.) [SOUTHERN STATES] (witch rewards kind sister while the greedy sister is not rewarded)
    • Schroeder, Alan. Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. [APPALACHIA] (Cinderella variant with Rose losing her glass slipper at a party given for a rich person on the other side of the creek)
    • Sierra, Judy. The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. (40 ps.) [INDONESIA] (Cinderella variant - Damura, cruel stepmother and stepsister, handsome prince, Grandmother Crocodile helps)
    • Steel, Flora Annie. Tattercoats: An Old English Tale. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1976. (32 ps.) [ENGLAND] (Cinderella variant)
    • Steptoe, John. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1987. (32 ps.) [1988 Coretta Scott King Illustrator's Award][Caldecott Honor Book] (Cinderella variant)
    • Wilson, Barbara. Wishbones: A Folk Tale from China. NY: Bradbury Press, 1993. (unp.) [CHINA] (Cinderella variant with Yeh Hsien using magic fishbones to dress herself in finery for the Cave Festival; losing a slipper while fleeing)
  
  
  
• Galdone, Paul. The Elves and the Shoemaker. NY: Clarion Books, 1984. (32 ps.) [GERMANY]
• Huling, Jan. Puss in Cowboy Boots. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. (unp.) [TEXAS] (A clever cat in Texas wins a fortune and a wealthy bride for his master) (Puss in Boots variant - France)
• Plume, Ilse. Shoemaker and the Elves. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. [GERMANY] (4 elves help shoemaker)
• Schwartz, Howard. The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales. NY: HarperCollins, 1996. (66 ps.) ("The Purim Dybbuk") [MOROCCO] (rabbi finds a way to exorcise the dybbuk)
• Schwartz, Howard. The Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales. NY: HarperCollins, 1996. (66 ps.) ("The Rabbi Who Became a Werewolf" variant of Fisherman and His Wife) [EASTERN EUROPE] (rabbi finds ring in forest; wishes; wife transforms him into a werewolf; he transforms wife into a she-ass)
• Wells, Rosemary. Fisherman and His Wife. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996. [GERMANY] (fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted by an enchanted fish)
  
  
• Rumpelstiltskin VARIANTS
  
  
  • Rumpelstiltskin. [GERMANY]
  • Stanley, Diane. Rumpelstiltkin's Daughter. NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1997. (unp.) [GERMANY]
  • Ness, Evaline. Tom Tit Tot: An English Folk Tale. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997. (unp.) [ENGLAND] (Rumpelstiltskin variant)
  • Zemach, Harve. Duffy and the Devil: A Cornish Tale. [ENGLAND] [1974 Caldecott Medal Award]

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Magic: Magic Objects [AT 560-649]

• Aladdin.
• The Magic Ring.
• The Thieving Pot.

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Magic: Supernatural Power or Knowledge [AT 650-699]

• Strong John.
• The Four Skillful Brothers.
• The Three Languages.
• Seven Chinese Brothers.

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Magic: Other Tales of Supernatural [AT 700-749]

• Snow White. [GERMANY]
• Tom Thumb. [GERMANY]
• Born From a Fish.

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