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42) Cinderella
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English
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A retelling of the classic story about a mistreated kitchen maid who, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends a palace ball and meets a prince.
43) Red Riding Hood
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English
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Based on Charles Perrault's version of the tale, a little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.
46) Puss in boots
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English
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Presents an illustrated retelling of the classic fairy tale about a clever cat in boots who wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
48) Sopa de piedras
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Español
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When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
53) Sleeping Badger
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English
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In this simple retelling of Sleeping Beauty, a badger princess is stung by a wicked wasp and falls asleep for one hundred years before being woken up by a kiss from a handsome prince.
54) Cinderella
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English
Description
A contemporary retelling of Cinderella based on an award-winning app. When Cinderella magically attends the ball, she and the prince fall in love. Using her lost slipper to find her, the prince marries Cinderella, and the two live happily ever after.
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times?
Why in the eighteenth-century version...
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times?
Why in the eighteenth-century version...