Summary of Book: Explore the land of Fairy Tales in the jam packed book including 18 familiar fairy tales. These tales include: Beauty ant the Beast, Rapunzel, Aladdin, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Snow White, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Thumbelina, The Frog Prince, Pinocchio, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, and The Velveteen Rabbit. Each tale is very unique and is sure to play with any child's imagination.

Personal Reaction: This is another one of my childhood favorites. First of all the book is appealing to the eyes. It is a thick square book that has gold edged pages that are glisten. I love how this book has an abundance of short fairy tales that captivate the audience. The artwork accompanying each story does a nice job depicting what is going on in the story. There is something on this book for everyone.

Extension Ideas: This book would be a great introduction to a unit on fairy tales. Students could pick their favorite tale and write a review on it. Make sure they include the plot and theme in the review. Also, this book could be used to teach children that lying is not acceptable. Pinocchio demonstrates that lying gets you in trouble, and that loving and caring for others is an important factor in life.

This book is a Princess name Jade, who goes into the forest with her kitten she has agolden ball that she is tossing. She tosses the ball too hard and it goes into the water. She cannot go into the water to get it because of her clothes and the water is too deep. She begins to cry along comes a frog and asks "Why are you crying." She tells him that he cannot help because he is an ugly frog. He tells her that he will get the ball if he can come to live at the palace to live with her. He does retrieve the ball for her. She leves the forest and forgets about the frog, but her shows up at her door the next day. her dad tells her she must make good on her promise and allow the forg to come and live with herand she does. The frog leaves to go to the forest daily but returns evry evening around dinner.On the third night her sangs her a song that tells her he will have a surprise for her. that next morning she awakes to see a prince at her bed . He tells her his name is Roland.he tells her about being changed into a frog by a wicked fairy and thre reason he had to eat from her plate and sleep in her bed. He then asks her to marry him and they tell her parents of his enchantment. They give their blessings and they were married.
I enjoyed this book and I thought of the old saying "treat everybody right."
Can use to read during fairy tales week, read while talking about frogs, read when talking about being nice to people or animals. ( )

Traditional fantasy: This is the story about a girl named Rapunzel who gets taken away by a witch named Helga because her father had taken some rapunzel lettuce out of the witches garden for his pregnant wife. When Rapunzel gets taken away the witch eventually takes Rapunzel to live in a tower where Rapunzel had to let down her golden blonde hair so the witch can come up and to give her food. One day Rapunzel meets a prince and eventually the two decide to run away but before they can ecape the witch sends a raven after them to take them to a place where they will be unhappy the rest of their lives. The raven is soon charmed by Rapunzel's singing so instead of taking her and the prince to an unhappy place to live he takes them to Rapunzel's parents's house and the prince asks Rapunzel to marry him and he invites the Rapunzel's parents to live with him in his castle and they all live happily ever after.

I thought this fairy tale was awesome. I had never heard the full version before because the cartoons I watched never told you the full story of Rapunzel so I understood the whole story a whole lot better. I'm assumming the cartoons wanted you to figure out the meaning of the cartoon through illustration.

This story should teach children that stilling is wrong and that taking something from somebody can only lead to something bad happening like getting the police called on you or something of that matter. Children can learn that there is obviously good and evil out there so they need to always be good so something bad does not happen to them. ( )