Fractured Fairy Tales
These slightly warped versions of classic fairy tales and folklore are sure to crack you up. You may check each title's location and availability in the Library's catalog by clicking the title of the book.
Three Pigs
Frank Asch
Fun-loving Ziggy -- the hitherto unknown fourth little pig -- decides to go to the beach, and only his quick thinking saves his brothers after the wolf blows down the brick house.
Jon Scieszka
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs
Eugene Trivizas
An altered retelling of the traditional tale about the conflict between pig and wolf--with a surprise ending.
David Wiesner
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
Cinderella
Pamela Duncan Edwards
In this story, loosely based on that of Cinderella but featuring dinosaurs, the Duke falls in love with Dinorella when she rescues him from the dreaded deinonychus at the Dinosaur Dance.
Ellen B. Jackson
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.
Tony Johnston
This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.
Frances Minters
In this rap version of the traditional fairy tale, the overworked younger sister gets to go to a basketball game and meets a star player, Prince Charming.
Bernice Myers
Sidney Rella becomes a football player with a little help from his fairy godfather.
Robert D. San Souci
A rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main characters are skeletons.
Goldilocks
Little Red
Mike Artell
In this Cajun version of "Little Red Riding Hood," the big bad gator is no match for a sharp young duck and her quick-thinking cat.
Lisa Campbell Ernst
An updated version, set on the prairie, of the familiar story about a little girl, her grandmother, and a not-so-clever wolf.
Jack's Giant
Jim Harris.
A Southwestern version of the traditional tale, in which a boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk and uses his quick wits to outsmart the giant cattle rustler Wild Bill Hiccup.
Mary Pope Osborne
In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.
Fables and Nursery Rhymes
Kevin O’Malley
An enormous Humpty Dumpty returns to seek revenge on the nursery rhyme characters who let him fall.
Paul Rosenthal
Feathers, frisbees & flying salami -- Clam up! -- A dog's life -- The early worm -- Of mice and boys -- Pickle puss -- Cookie crooks -- Bad hare day -- Sticky situations -- The wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jon Scieszka
Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.
Judy Sierra
A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures.
Multiple Fractures
Alma Flor Ada
Presents letters between such fairy tale characters as Goldilocks, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and the Three Pigs.
Alma Flor Ada
Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
Roald Dahl
Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
Jon Scieszka
Chicken Licken -- The princess and the bowling ball -- The really ugly duckling -- The other frog prince -- Little red running shorts --Jack's bean problem -- Cinderumpelstiltskin -- The tortoise and the hair -- The stinky cheese man -- The boy who cried "cow patty."
Vivian Vande Velde
Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Individual Fractures
Eric Kimmel
In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.
Gail Carson Levine
Humorous retellings in novel form of classic folk and fairy tales
Susan Lowell
A retelling, set in the Old West, of the traditional story about two elves who help a poor shoemaker, or in this case a bootmaker, and his wife.
Frances Minters
In this updated, rhyming retelling of the traditional fairy tale, Beauty outwits the wicked witch and arranges for her own happy ending.
Donna Jo Napoli
Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
Jon Scieszka
The trio goes back to the time of King Arthur where quick thinking and daring-do save them from a fire-breathing dragon and a foul-smelling giant.
Jon Scieszka
After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.
Various
Andersen's classic fairy tale retold from different points of view by twenty-three celebrities and depicted by twenty-three illustrators.
David Vozar
A take-off, in rap style with dogs as characters, on the story of a girl with long hair who is imprisoned by a witch.
More Fractured Fairy Taleslists
Three PigsMultiple Fractures
Little Red
Jack's Giant
Individual Fractures
Goldilocks
Fables and Nursery Rhymes
Cinderella