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Aesop's Fables
My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers

Series

Lexile measure

500L

Language

English

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Description

Retells the fable about an industrious ant that busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.

2) The boy who cried wolf: a retelling of Aesop's fable

Author

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers. Yellow level

Series

Lexile measure

520L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A retelling of the fable in which a young boy's false cries for help cause him problems when he is really in need of assistance.

3) The brave little tailor: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Read-it! readers. Fairy tales. Green level
My 1st classic story

Series

Lexile measure

470L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A retelling of the classic tale of a tailor whose boast about killing seven flies at one blow leads him to even greater feats.

4) The country mouse and the city mouse: a retelling of Aesop's fable

Author

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers. Yellow level

Series

Lexile measure

400L

Language

English

Formats

Description

When the town mouse and the city mouse visit each other, they discover they prefer very different ways of life.

5) The fox and the grapes: a retelling of Aesop's fable

Author

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers. Yellow level

Series

Lexile measure

480L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

6) The frog prince: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Series

Lexile measure

490L

Language

English

Formats

Description

An easy-to-read retelling of the classic tale of a beautiful princess who makes a promise to a frog which she does not intend to keep.

7) The lion and the mouse: a retelling of Aesop's fable

Author

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers

Series

Lexile measure

530L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A mouse begs a lion for mercy and, after he is set free, promises that he will help the lion some day in return.

8) The shoemaker and his elves: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Series

Lexile measure

490L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A retelling of the classic tale of a kindly but poor shoemaker who gets unexpected help with his work.

9) The wolf in sheep's clothing: a retelling of Aesop's fable

Author

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers

Series

Lexile measure

460L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Retells how the wolf's plan to get into the sheep pen backfires when the farmer butchers him for a lamb dinner.

10) Beauty and the beast

Author

Jones, Christianne C

Series

Lexile measure

440L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Read it! readers. Yellow level
Read-it! readers. Folk tales
My 1st classic story
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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.

11) How the camel got its hump

Author

Jones, Christianne C

Series

Lexile measure

420L

Language

English

Formats

Description

When hard-working animals complain to "the magic desert watcher" about camel's laziness, the watcher agrees to make things more fair.

12) Puss in Boots: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Series

Lexile measure

500L

Language

English

Formats

Description

My 1st classic story
Read-it! readers. Fairy tales
Read-it! readers. Green level

An easy-to-read retelling of the tale of a clever cat who wins a fortune and the hand of a princess for his master.

13) Rapunzel

Author

Jones, Christianne C

Series

Lexile measure

480L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

14) Sleeping Beauty: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Series

Lexile measure

480L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

15) Annie Oakley

Author

Series

Lexile measure

590L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A simple profile of Annie Oakley and her sharp shooting skills.

16) Johnny Appleseed: a retelling

Author

Series

Publisher

Picture Window Books

Pub. Date

c2011

Lexile measure

490L

Physical Desc

1 online resource (31 p.) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

Presents the story of avid wanderer Johnny Appleseed, who made it his mission to plant apple trees wherever his travels took him.

17) Paul +Bunyan

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Lexile measure

600L

Physical Desc

31 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

A retelling of the tall tale about Paul Bunyan.

18) The Pied Piper

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Lexile measure

510L

Physical Desc

31 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

The Pied Piper pipes a village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he pipes away their children as well.

19) Rumpelstiltskin: a retelling of the Grimm's fairy tale

Author

Series

Publisher

Picture Window Books

Pub. Date

[2014]

Lexile measure

540L

Physical Desc

1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations.

Language

English

Description

An easy-to-read retelling of a classic tale in which a strange man spins straw into gold, asks a huge reward, and offers a seemingly impossible way out of the deal.

20) The Bremen town musicians: a retelling of the Grimms' fairy tale

Author

Series

Publisher

Picture Window Books

Pub. Date

[2013]

Lexile measure

460L

Physical Desc

1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations.

Language

English

Description