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Little Red Writing
Joan Holub and Melissa Sweet are paired together in this beautifully executed story about writing a story. This is such a fun way to introduce children to writing stories. Little Red Writing takes a familiar story and remakes it to include tried and true rules for writing a story. Our…
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Starry River of the Sky
Starry River of the Sky is written by Grace Lin and is considered a companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. In both of these stories, Lin takes the Chinese folklore that she so desperately did not want to hear as a child and creates her own spin…
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Enchanted
Enchanted (not the Disney movie, but a YA novel) written by Alethea Kontis combines a number of fairy tales into one complete story which is magical in its own right. This is the story of Sunday Woodcutter who is born to be (as written in the childhood rhyme) “but the child born on…
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Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs written by Anne Ursu and illustrated by Erin Mcguire is a modern-day fairy tale based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen. This retelling is about two best friends Hazel and Jack who do everything together even when it’s deemed uncool by the other kids at school. They have wonderful imaginations,…