Twice Upon a Time

Create dynamic story or theme units, booktalks, and other activities with this lively, comprehensive guide to more than 300 fractured, altered, and otherwise retold classic folk and fairy tales presented in picture books for K-5 students.

This reference title is a complete and comprehensive guide to more than 300 fractured, altered, and otherwise retold classic folk and fairy tales. . . . The numerous variants of titles like Cinderella , The Little Red Hen , Stone Soup , The Three Little Pigs , and a bevy of other originals, as well as annotations that explain the story variations, make this guide a wonderful tool for collection development purposes. Recommended.

This would be a useful work for those interested in either serious folklore or new approaches to old tales…it is the most complete of its kind, is well-researched and of obvious use to the right professionals.

Catharine R. Bomhold is assistant professor of library and information science and director of the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi. Terri E. Elder is a school media specialist with the Birmingham (AL) Public School District.