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Fractured Fairy Tale Picture Books

Think of your favourite fairy tales. Now, what would you think if they had different endings, animals instead of people, and characters showing up in the wrong fairy tales? These fractured fairy tales are sure to make you laugh right out loud!

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  • Ruby's mind is always full of ideas. One day, she spies some blueberries across the creek and invites her brothers to pick some. Unfortunately, the bridge is blocked by scary Santiago. "I'm the boss, and you can't cross... unless you give me a…
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2021. — JP MAI
  • Cinderella's youngest stepsister, Gertie, is told she must act mean like the rest of the Ugly family if she wants to attend the prince's ball. She enlists the help of the big bad wolf to learn to act like a true Ugly.
    Picture Book, 2015Somerville, Massachusetts : Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2015. — JP CAR
  • You know the fairytale, now read the real story . . . in Cinderella's Not So Ugly Sisters. Winifred and Prudence are kind and sweet - unlike their step-sister, Cinder-Ella. She is horrible! She'll do anything to get her own way, and even orders a…
    Picture Book, 2014London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2014. — JP Shi
  • Splinters

    (this Girl Needs a Miracle-- )

    Sylvester, Kevin
    Cindy, a poor girl, but talented hockey player, must deal with the jealous blister sisters. Enter fairy goaltender for a "happily ever after" story.
    Book, 2010Toronto : Tundra Books, c2010.
  • Set in the ocean off Japan, this retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears stars Kiniro, a mermaid, who finds a baby octopus's breakfast, chair, and bed just right
    Picture Book, 2017New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — JP BRE
  • Little Green Raincape is on her way to Rapunzel's party, deep in the wild woods. The way is long and dark, but Green is a smart girl. Smart enough to turn down apples offered by kindly old ladies, smart enough to turn down travel advice from helpful…
    Picture Book, 2018London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2018. — JP RID
  • Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel are all unhappy, but when they decide to switch places for a day each discovers what she likes--and what she can change--about her own life.
    Picture Book, 2015New York : Orchard Books, c2015. — JP CLA
  • Little Red is on her way to visit Auntie Rosie with a basket of goodies and some spot medicine. Along the way she meets the Very Hungry Lion. The Lion is eager to gobble up Little Red. The Lion's plan doesn't work out the way he wanted.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Scholastic, Incorporated, 2016. — JP SMI
  • Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from her Fairy GodRobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone…
    Picture Book, 2015San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2015. — JP UND
  • Join this feathered expert as she fact-checks and pecks her way through The Three Little Pigs, exposing the flaws and explaining the science.
    Picture Book, 2024Toronto, ON : Tundra Books, 2024. — JP BOU
  • Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on her way through the woods to visit her sick grandmother. The wolf is hungry, and Red Riding Hood looks tasty, so he hatches a dastardly plan, gobbles up Grandma and lies in wait. So far, so familiar. But this…
    Picture Book, 2016London : Two Hoots, c2016. — JP WOO
  • After the jealous queen banishes Jo to the forest, then attacks her dragon-bots, Jo and her new dragon friends fly the queen to the Moon, and a new bot-builder is chosen to rule the kingdom:
    Book, 2022San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2022. — JP UND
  • When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!
    Picture Book, 2018New York : Clarion Books, 2018. — JP DON
  • When a Princess learns from her Fairy Godmother that she is in last place in a car race against such fairy tale notables as Humpty Dumpty, the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin, she boldly rebuffs defeat and steps on the gas.
    Picture Book, 2018New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. — JP ANG
  • A hapless young chef, hoping to impress workers at Fairy-Tale Headquarters, cooks some story ingredients he has found, and gives a new twist to familiar tales.
    Picture Book, 2017New York : Random House, 2017. — JP KLO
  • Endlessly Ever After

    Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! : a Story of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack, Hansel, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, a Wolf, a Witch, a Goose, a Grandmother, Some Pigs, and Endless Variations

    Snyder, Laurel
    Picture Book, 2022San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2022. — JP SNY
  • In this twist on "Little Red Riding Hood, " a certain wolf trains to be a ninja in order to catch his prey, but he is not the only one mastering a martial art.
    Picture Book, 2014New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014] — JP Sch
  • Cinderella is dying to go to the ball. She's seen pictures of the fancy castle and the handsome prince, she's heard the fairy tales about true love, she's found the perfect dress in Princess magazine and she's even found an ad for a Fairy Godmother.…
    Picture Book, 2017Toronto : Tundra, 2017. — JP CAL
  • It's time for the little red chicken's bedtime story--and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can't help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little , she jumps into the…
    Picture Book, 2010Cambridge, MA. : Candlewick Press, 2010. — JP Ste
  • The big bad wolf doesn't want to tell a long story. He wants to get to the eating part. But the reader has other ideas. From a pig soccer team to a pig for every letter of the alphabet to 101 pigs in an animated movie, the stories get more and more…
    Picture Book, 2022Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, 2022. — JP CAL