characters in literature

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Seven stories

2005
A girl in a seven-story apartment building has trouble sleeping because of her disruptive neighbors, who all seem to be characters from fairy tales.

Walter the giant storyteller's giant book of giant stories

2005
Walter is shipwrecked on an island of tiny people and must them tell stories of good giants in order to win his freedom.

A perfect pork stew

1998
When Ivan the Fool meets Baba Yaga, the witch of Russian folklore fame, on a day that has begun badly for her, he outwits her by making dirt soup, getting a fine, fat pig in the bargain.

Into the Wild

a novel
2007
Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her daughter Julie Marchen, tries to live a fairly normal life, but when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being trapped in the events of a story.

Peter and the Starcatchers

2004
Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin.

Shake dem Halloween bones

1997
A rhythmic tale about different fairy tale characters who attend a hip-hop Halloween ball.

Fox and Crow are not friends

2012
Continuing Aesop's fable, Fox and Crow tussle over pieces of cheese, but Mama, one of the three bears, outwits them both.

Inkheart

2005
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

Crafts from your favorite children's stories

2001
Provides directions for creating puppets, games, jewelry, toys, and other craft projects related to twenty favorite children's stories, including "The Little Engine that Could," "The Three Little Pigs," and "Peter Pan.".

Rider in the night

a tale of Sleepy Hollow
2007
The time travel missions continue for Mattie, her brother Alex, and sister Sophie when they meet the superstitious villagers in Washington Irving's classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and must help fearful Ichabod Crane win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel.

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