Angela Barrett
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the twelve daughters of King Alberto lose their mother, they also lose their lessons, possessions, and freedom but the eldest, Princess Frida, is determined that they shall still thrive in this modern, feminist interpretation of The twelve dancing princesses.
5) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a fairy tale follows a young man who becomes a princess' unlikely suitor when the king and queen issue a decree that whoever presents them with the most wonderful thing in the world will win their daughter's hand in marriage.
9) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie Bartram's beloved dog, Mr. Jackson, has lost his bark. The birds have stopped singing. And in the growing silence, her dad has disappeared. Determined to find him, Sylvie and her best friend, kite-flying, tone deaf George, are drawn into the nightmare world of the Songman, a world haunted by the terrifying Woodpecker Man in his swan-powered balloon, a world where nothing can sing and no one can speak. Only Sylvie can save the earth from its...
19) The hidden house
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
With the owner gone, three dolls watch as their house becomes hidden by growing plants and trees until a man walks by and discovers the residence.