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This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's most famous tale 'The Ugly Duckling', first published in May of 1859. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first publication, with many, many, different artists illustrating the story over the years. This edition features a beautiful collection of the best of that art, taken from the likes of Arthur Rackham, W....
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Twice upon a time volume 3
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When you're stuck with the name Beauty, people expect a lot from you, like beauty and grace and a sense of style. But what if you have a perfect older sister who really should have had your name instead of you?
And when you're a prince, you're supposed to be athletic and commanding and brave and tall. But what if all you like to do is play the bagpipes (badly), study the stars, and try to figure out how to make worms live forever?
When Beauty's...
5) Spelled
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Storymakers volume 1
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"As the crown princess of Emerald, Dorthea lives a charmed life full of Hans Christian Louboutin glass slippers and Glenda Original ball gowns. But when she unknowingly wishes upon a cursed star, all spell breaks loose and the rules of fairy tale disappear--taking Dorthea's parents with them"--Provided by publisher.
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"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about two con-men weavers who tell an emperor they can make him a new suit of clothes that is invisible to people who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. Parading before his subjects in his new "clothes", no one is willing to admit to themselves or others that the emperor is essentially naked. When a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" the...
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Sisters Grimm volume 3
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With the help of their long lost uncle, and an ancient powerful weapon, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm prepare to face their parents' kidnappers, a sinister group of Everafters known as the Scarlet Hand.
9) Switched
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Fairy Tale Reform School volume 4
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Gilly and her friends must prepare for a giant invasion after Jack plants magic beans, earning him a spot in Fairy Tale Reform School and reminding Gilly how good it feels to be bad.
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Twice upon a time volume 4
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There's two sides to every story ... this time it's Robin Hood and Maid Marian like you've never seen them before.
11) Rumpelstiltskin
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In "Rumpelstiltskin" a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can "spin gold from straw" is forced by the king to make good on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. When the daughter, who by now is the queen, gives birth to a child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn the imp's name. According to researchers at Durham...
12) The frog prince
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As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, an enchanted frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.
13) Wished
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Fairy Tale Reform School volume 5
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Maxine, with the help of an over-enthusiastic genie, makes a wish that has everyone at the Fairy Tale Reform School focusing on producing a musical rather than figuring out how to combat Rumpelstiltskin.
14) The golden goose
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In this modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Rupert is rewarded with a golden goose when he does a good deed for a mysterious old man.
15) Heroes
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Royal Academy rebels volume 3
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Princess Devin didn't come to Royal Academy for fame, glory, or a crown. All she's ever wanted is to be a Magical Creature Caretaker. Just when Devin gets up the courage to ask about following her passion, disaster strikes. The evil Rumplestiltskin and Alva cast a curse that nearly destroys Enchantasia, a new villain is on the rise, and the students of Royal Academy find they now have to share their castle with the delinquents from the notorious Fairy...
16) Misfits
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Royal Academy rebels volume 1
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Forced to attend Enchantasia's Royal Academy, Devin teams up with other misfits to investigate why Olivina, the fairy godmother/headmistress, is obsessed with villains rather than teaching them to be proper princes and princesses.
17) Thumbelina
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This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'Thumbelina', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first publication, with many, many, different artists illustrating the story over the years. This edition features a beautiful collection of the best of that art, taken from the likes of Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson, Harry Clarke,...
18) Banished
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In a Kansas hospital, Princess Dorthea of Emerald struggles to regain her memory of what propelled her out of the land of Story, and how to get home, while Rexi, aided by Excalibur, continues to protect Story from the Wicked Witch.
19) Outlaws
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Royal Academy rebels volume 2
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Banished to the Hollow Woods, Devin and her friends, old and new, devise a plan to expose the truth about evil fairy godmother Olivina to all of Enchantasia.
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Experience great adventures in the company of Kings and Queens, talking animals and magical creatures in the fourth stunning volume A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and to go shares in the housekeeping. 'But we must provide for the winter or else we shall suffer hunger,' said the Cat. 'You, little...
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