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The Princess and the Pit Stop
Written by Tom Angleberger
Illustrated by Dan Santat
Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. Picture Book.

When a Princess learns from her Fairy Godmother that she is in last place in a car race against such fairy tale notables as Humpty Dumpty, the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin, she boldly rebuffs defeat and steps on the gas.

By Liesel Shurtliff
Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Fiction. 296 pages.

Relates the tale of Jack who, after trading his mother's milk cow for magic beans, climbs a beanstalk to seek his missing father in the land of giants.

By Gail Carson Levine
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. Fiction. 340 pages.

Healer Evora is turned into a hideous ogre by the fairy Lucinda after rejecting a proposal, and has only a few months to find a love to reverse the curse.

By Jon Scieszka
Viking Kestrel, 1989. Picture Book. 

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

By Rachel Himes
Charlesbridge, 2017. Picture Book.

In this version of the classic story, Ma Sally of Charleston County, South Carolina, devises a contest for her son's admirers: cook up a dish of black-eyed peas that meets her exacting standards, and the winner can marry her son. Includes recipe for Princess' black-eyed peas.

Written by Paulette Bourgeois
Illustrated by Alex G. Griffiths
Tundra Books, 2022. Picture Book.

This entertaining STEM-filled picture book, filled with silly jokes and illustrations, follows Professor Goose as she fact-checks Goldilocks and the Three Bears, exposing its flaws and explaining the science behind this classic story.

Written by Corey Rosen Schwartz
Illustrated by Dan Santat
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group, 2014. Picture Book.

In this twist on "Little Red Riding Hood," a certain wolf trains to be a ninja in order to catch his prey, but he is not the only one mastering a martial art.

By E.D. Baker
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2010. Fiction. 261 pages.

Annie, younger sister of the princess who would be known as Sleeping Beauty, is immune to magic and stays awake when the rest of the castle falls into an enchanted sleep, then sets out to find a way to break the spell.

By Tae Keller
Henry Holt and Company, 2022. Fiction. 228 pages.

When she and her new friends discover a portal to a fairy tale realm, Mihi Whan Park finally gets her shot at being a princess, but she must decide where her loyalties lie when her friends want to go home.
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