Fairy Tale and Classic Story Re-telling
- Beauty and the Beast (with Marianna Mayer) (1978) ISBN 1-58717-017-5
- East of the Sun & West of the Moon (1980)
- Favorite Tales from Grimm (Retold by Nancy Garden) (1982)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1984) ISBN 0-02-765340-4
- A Christmas Carol (1986) (retold with mice, originally by Charles Dickens) ISBN 0-02-730310-1
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1987)
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“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
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It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
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Another sadder song:
Once more Il Trovatore cries
A tale of deeper wrong;”
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