Fairy tales are traditional stories that originated from oral storytelling and explore universal human experiences like problems, fears, and hopes. They typically involve magical elements and characters, settings, good versus evil themes, and lessons. Some popular classic fairy tales include Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and The Frog Prince. The document also discusses fractured fairy tales, which are modernized versions that change one or more traditional elements of the story. It provides descriptions of various fractured fairy tale books.

1. Fairy Tales

2. What are Fairy Tales?
• Stories for children that come
from oral storytelling tradition
• Old stories that tell of man’s
problems, fears and hopes

3. Magical Characters

4. Magical Settings

5. Magic or Enchantment

6. Good versus Evil

7. Teach Lessons

8. Popular Fairy Tales
Little Red____________________
Sleeping _____________________
Jack and the ____________
Snow _____________
The Frog ____________

9. Next week….
• We will look at some examples
of fairy tales…

10. An illustrated retelling
of the classic tale about
a boy named Jack who
uses his quick wits to
outsmart a giant and
make a fortune for
himself and his
widowed mother.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 0.5

11. A retelling of a folktale in
which a beautiful girl with long
golden hair is kept imprisoned
in a lonely tower by a
sorceress. Includes a note that
traces the Italian, French, and
German origins of the story,
and discusses the author's
decision to mimic the style of
Italian Renaissance art in his
illustrations.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 0.5

12. A strange little man helps
the miller's daughter spin
straw into gold for the king
on the condition that she
will give him her first-born
child.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.0
Point Value: 0.5

13. A retelling of the well-
known tale in which two
children are left in the
woods but find their way
home despite an encounter
with a wicked witch.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 0.5

14. Although she is mistreated
by her stepmother and
stepsisters, a kind-hearted
young woman manages to
attend the palace ball with
the help of her fairy
godmother.

15. A mother saves her
seven children from
Heckedy Peg, a witch
who has changed them
into different kinds of
food.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 0.5

16. Through her great
capacity to love, a kind
and beautiful maid
releases a handsome
prince from the spell
which has made him an
ugly beast.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 0.5

17. Rebuffed by the princess
after retrieving her golden
ball, a noble frog sets out
to find a more suitable
mate.

18. On her way to
deliver a basket of
food to her sick
grandmother,
Elisabeth encounters
a sly wolf.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 0.5

19. The queen has a plan to help
the prince find a real princess
to marry.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 1.8
Point Value: 0.5

20. An illustrated retelling
of the fairy tale in
which a jealous queen
attempts to kill her
beautiful stepdaughter
and is thwarted on
every try.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 0.5

21. A beautiful and
beloved princess,
cursed by the one fairy
who was not invited to
her christening, pricks
her finger on her
sixteenth birthday and
falls asleep for one
hundred years.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 0.5

22. Fractured Fairy
Tales
When authors modernize or
change one or more of the
elements of the story, the
story is called a fractured
fairy tale.

23. Based on "Cinderella,"
this story is set in
Texas, the fairy
godmother is a cow,
and the hero, named
Bubba, is the stepson
of a wicked rancher.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 0.5

24. 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.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 0.5

25. Cindy Ellen loses
one of her diamond
spurs at the square
dance in this wild
western retelling of
the classic Cinderella
story.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 5.0
Point Value: 0.5

26. A Spanish American
retelling of the familiar
story of a kind girl who
is mistreated by her
jealous stepmother and
stepsisters. In this
version, the Virgin Mary
replaces the traditional
fairy godmother.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 0.5

27. Mufaro's two
beautiful daughters,
one bad-tempered,
one kind and sweet,
go before the king,
who is choosing a
wife
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 0.5

28. A Creole variant of the
familiar Cinderella tale
set in the Caribbean and
narrated by the
godmother who helps
Cendrillon find true love.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.7
Point Value: 0.5

29. A young Chinese girl
overcomes the wickedness
of her stepsister and
stepmother to become the
bride of a prince.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 5.0
Point Value: 0.5

30. After the death of her
mother and father,
Adelita is badly
mistreated by her
stepmother and
stepsisters until she finds
her own true love at a
grand fiesta.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5

31. Cinderella and Cinder Edna,
who live next door to each
other, each with a cruel
stepmother and stepsisters,
have different approaches to
life. Although both end up
with the princes of their
dreams, one is a great deal
happier than the other.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 0.5

32. 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.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 0.5

33. 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.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 0.5

34. A collection of nine
familiar fractured tales
including Little Red
Riding Hood, Princess
and the Pea, Jack and
the Beanstalk, and the
Ugly Duckling.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.4
Point Value: 0.5

35. In this African
American retelling of
"Rumpelstiltskin,"
Lit'mahn spins thread
into gold cloth for the
king's new bride.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5

36. In this Cajun version
of "Little Red Riding
Hood," the big bad
gator is no match for
a sharp young girl
and her quick-
thinking cat.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 0.5

37. In this Indonesian
version of the Cinderella
story, a girl named
Damura escapes her
cruel stepmother and
stepsister and marries a
handsome prince with
the help of Grandmother
Crocodile.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 0.5

38. The adventures of Little
Pierre are based on the
stories of Little Tom
Thumb. A very tiny but
clever boy outwits his older
brothers, an ogre, an
alligator, and a giant catfish
to rescue a rich man's
daughter in this Cajun
version of a French fairy
tale.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 4.0
Point Value: 0.5

39. 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.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5

40. With a "Hot diggety-
dog!" and a wave of his
white sombrero, cowboy
Joe Cinders gets the girl
in this Southwestern
retelling of the Cinderella
story.
Accelerated Reader
Reading Level: 3.4
Point Value: 0.5