Juvenile Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore
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Goldi Unlocks
A Tale of Thievery, Danger, and Redemption by Keely Bruel
In this fun reimagining of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, you will finally learn the true reason why this mischievous little girl thought it was perfectly acceptable to sneak into someone’s house, critique their food and...
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Brownylocks and the Two Coyotes (A Christmas Story)
The GPS Device by Joseph E. Barrera
A pair of bumbling coyotes attempt to capture a clever young girl named Brownylocks, to have for their Christmas meal. Brownylocks is lost in a dark forest, looking to find a way to her nana's house. The coyotes devise a plan to deceive her so...
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The Magic Candle
or How We Got Home by Hallie Rive Appel
Charlotte and her sisters Emma and Andrea live in a cabin in a forest—but they can’t remember how they got there. When otherworldly characters show up—a talking wolf, royal guards with a glass slipper, woebegone dwarves—Charlotte suspects they’ve...
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It's Time for Tricks!
Seven African Tales by Deborah Duncan
Anansi the spider may be the smallest animal in the forest, but he is certain that he is also the cleverest. He loves to play tricks on the other animals. But Anansi underestimates just how smart his friends can be: they often manage to trick him...
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Finding Grace
by Mommy Magnussen
Finding Grace is an interactive, hide and seek picture book that recounts a mother’s search for her daughter, Grace. In trying to locate her daughter, the mother keeps looking in all the wrong places, until she is directed to travel to the Castle...
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The Frost
Based on an International Folk Tale by Irina Mazor
Deep in the Frost Woods lives an ancient creature, feared by all, who rules over everything in the forest. The very forest that Beth now calls home… When Beth moves to the Frost Woods with her father, stepmother, and stepsister after a terrible...
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The Christmas Nisse
A Family Christmas Tradition by Rikke Melgaard Liffiton
A delightful Christmas story for families. The Christmas Nisse presents a Danish Christmas tradition about the magical little Nisse. These mischievous creatures live at the North pole with Santa. On the last night of November, they roam through...
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The Dragon's Tears
by Joan M. Miller
Fourteen-year-old Jessica Graves is stuck spending the summer in the countryside with her eccentric Aunt Esmeralda. Feeling abandoned by her parents, Jessica expects the time to drag with no friends and nothing to do. But when her aunt encourages...
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The Voice of the Forest
by Abby Dupuis
Once upon a time, a young girl named Eva loses track of her brother in a mysterious forest near their home. As she’s searching for him, she encounters a large, magical fox, who can speak to her and offers to help her find her brother. He makes...
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Sara, Nicholas and the Last Dragon
by Kathleen Murphy McIlroy
Sara is used to being known as the shy one. She’s used to being bullied at school. But when she’s sick with the flu one day and drifts off to sleep, she dreams of a world where she is a gutsy and assertive princess who can do anything she sets...
