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What do you get when classic fairy tales are twisted about, turned inside out, and reworked for the graphic novel format? Far Out Fairy Tales! Discover what Snow White would be like if she were raised by robots. Find out how Cinderella's story plays out when she walks the path of the ninja. Play along when three billy goats named Gruff get stuck inside a video game. Chase down the Big Bad Wolf with the help of a superpowered Red Riding Hood! Each...
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What do you get when classic fairy tales are twisted about, turned inside out, and reworked for the graphic novel format? Far Out Fairy Tales! Discover what Snow White would be like if she were raised by robots. Find out how Cinderella's story plays out when she walks the path of the ninja. Play along when three billy goats named Gruff get stuck inside a video game. Chase down the Big Bad Wolf with the help of a superpowered Red Riding Hood! Each...
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Ready for more fractured fairy tales, more comics, and more fun? Then dive into More Far Out Fairy Tales! This collection combines five epic retellings into one action-packed, full-color graphic novel for kids. Discover what happens when Thumbelina is a tiny-but-mighty wrestler. Fight off three hungry vampires with adventurer extraordinaire Goldilocks. See how Rapunzel's story plays out when an accident in Dr. Frankenstein's lab causes her hair to...
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In this graphic novel, Jak's mother wants her to sell her rusty old robot and best friend, Cow, for scrap. Instead, Jak makes a deal with the scrap man to travel to the Cloud Kingdom to get some magic nanobots to help humankind and fix Cow. However, what Jak and Cow find in the Cloud Kingdom puts them in grave danger.
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Three clever billy goats find themselves trapped in a video game, confronting the Hillside Castle run by a monster troll--and they have to use their new superpowers to get past the castle to the green field of grass, and lunch. Written in graphic-novel format.
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In this adaptation of the fairy tale, Princess Aurora is the only one who was protected from the sleeping spell, and now that she is grown up she must leave the slumbering castle and gather the ingredients to make the potion that will free the kingdom from their perpetual nap. Written in graphic-novel format.
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In this version of the Hansel and Gretel tale, Hansel and Gretel come from a zombie family. They live off of the brains of tourists who visit their house, but when tourism dries up, Hansel and Gretel disguise themselves as living children and go off to lure an unsuspecting witch back home to eat her brain.
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Private Eye Princess King and her beagle, Pants, have come to Snells Manor to try and find Daisy Snells's missing emerald, called the "pea"; nobody has left the house since the gem went missing, but there are many secret places to search, and the inhabitants are an eccentric bunch--none more so than Miss Daisy herself. Written in graphic-novel format.
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When Rapunzel discovers Dr. Frankenstein's castle she is just looking for some medicine for her cold, but contact with one of his chemicals causes her hair to grow and come alive, along with the clay "monster" in his lab; Frankenstein is horrified at his own success, and it is up to Rapunzel to convince him and the townspeople that neither she nor Clay is really a monster--and that living hair has some advantages. Written in graphic-novel format.
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When Beauty's father is swept overboard from their ship, The Rose, just as they are being attacked by a sorcerer-pirate and his crew of living skeletons, Beauty jumps in to save him, and is immediately scooped up by a surprisingly friendly Kraken; she offers to remain with him if he finds and saves her father, but as she explores the pirate's island she finds a treasure and a book of spells--which may hold the key to turning the Kraken back into a...
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Tania, called "Thumbelina" because she is really tiny, has worked very hard to be a wrestling champion in the Junior Indie League, and now she and her friend Jorge, "Mouse," are being offered a chance at the pros, appearing in wrestling matches across the country--but her unscrupulous manager, Mr. Mole, wants her to adopt a flashy persona with elaborate moves, and somehow Tania must break free of the glitter and get back to the pure wrestling that...
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In this retelling of The Emperor's New Clothes, the ghost of a vain emperor is causing trouble in the local village shops, but famed ghost hunters plan to catch the ghost on camera, using the same tricky tactics the emperor's tailors did when he was alive. Written in graphic-novel format.
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In this adaptation of the fairy tale, Goldilocks is an explorer who searches the world for artifacts and treasures--but when she stumbles on the home of three vampires she has to use all of her skills to navigate the tomb's traps and get out into the sunlight alive. Written in graphic-novel format.
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When Hank, the youngest of three brothers, inherits his father's old motorcross bike and pet cat Puss, he was less than pleased, but when he discovers Puss can shapeshift into one of the top motorcross racers in the world, he realizes his inheritance is definitely the best of the bunch.
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"When the young witch, Princess Swampelina, loses her wand in the bog, a beautiful (ugh!) butterfly offers to retrieve it if she will be his friend, but after avoiding him the princess soon finds the butterfly helpful and even rather fun"--Provided by publisher.
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"In this retelling of The Gingerbread Man, Mr. and Mrs. Mantis bring home an egg and wait for a caterpillar to hatch, but when it emerges the speedy caterpillar zooms away and the Mantises and more creatures set their sights on eating the nimble Ginger-Red Caterpillar"--OCLC.