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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre
Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:
The Ugly Princess (1981)
A princess learns the true meaning of beauty.
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Author(s):
Nancy Luenn
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Iron Lion (1983)
The suitor who would win the princess must bring the iron lion, alive or dead.
Author(s):
Peter Dickinson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Mouldy (1983)
Author(s):
William Mayne
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Peter and the Troll Baby (1984)
Author(s):
Jan Wahl
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Earth Gnome (1985)
The king promises the hand of a princess to the hero who rescues the missing maidens.
Author(s):
Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s):
Margot Tomes
Harold’s Purple Crayon Treasury (1985)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Reluctant Dragon (1986)
This edition of The Reluctant Dragon includes a color illustration on the dust jacket. The story originally appeared in Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon (1987)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Are All the Giants Dead? (1987)
James finds himself in fairy-tale-land with his friend Mildred and takes on a quest to save the Princess Dulcibel from marriage to a toad.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Brian Froud
The Clothes Horse and Other Stories (1987)
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
The Enchanted Book (1987)
In this Polish fairy tale, the miller’s youngest daughter saves her sisters from an evil magician.
Author(s):
Janina Porazińska
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett
Prince Cinders (1987)
A fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco.
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Author(s):
Babette Cole
Illustrator(s):
Babette Cole
In Shadowland (1988)
The watchman abandons his post and Shadowland loses its bearings.
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Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Rootabaga Stories - Part One (1988)
Fairy tales as American as the Iowa cornfields.
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Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Animal Fairy Tales (1989)
These nine short stories were originally published in The Delineator magazine in 1905.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Charles Livingston Bull
At the Back of the North Wind (1989)
The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Colm of the Islands (1989)
When Colm unwittingly insults the Hebredean Sea Giant, it abducts his sweetheart and he must ransom her with the rope of pearls from the neck of the Sea-King’s daughter.
Author(s):
Rosemary Harris
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Fairies (1989)
Author(s):
William Allingham
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Little Little Sister (1989)
Author(s):
Jane Louise Curry
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Once Upon a Time: A Prince’s Fantastic Journey (1989)
Prince Alfred sets out on a quest in his yellow convertible with his page tyke. They are forced to take an unknown freeway exit and find themselves in Storyland.
Author(s):
Graham Oakley
Illustrator(s):
Graham Oakley