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Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Philip Pullman
4.05 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
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Phantom
Susan Kay
4.33 average rating, · 13.2k ratings
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The World's Wife
Carol Ann Duffy
4.10 average rating, · 11.2k ratings
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Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Nikita Gill
4.00 average rating, · 12.4k ratings
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Great Goddesses - Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
Nikita Gill
4.15 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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Transformations
Anne Sexton
4.11 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl
4.11 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
4.10 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Hold Your Own
Kae Tempest
4.14 average rating, · 4k ratings
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La morte della Pizia
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
4.08 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Alice Oswald
4.19 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Disney's Prince and the Pauper
Walt Disney Company
4.03 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella
Brittany Candau
4.49 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Alice in Wonderland: A BabyLit® Colors Primer
Jennifer Adams
4.08 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Swan Lake
Mark Helprin
4.11 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
Carole Boston Weatherford
4.45 average rating, · 999 ratings
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Il minotauro
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
4.10 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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You are Your Own Fairy Tale
Amanda Lovelace
4.18 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
Marilyn Singer
4.14 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems
Maria Zoccola
4.06 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Spin
Rebecca Caprara
4.27 average rating, · 933 ratings
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Rapunzel
Barbara Rogasky
4.30 average rating, · 889 ratings
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The House of Asterion
Jorge Luis Borges
4.43 average rating, · 767 ratings
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Goodnight, Anne
Kallie George
4.13 average rating, · 734 ratings
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