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1) Cactus soup
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A version of "Stone soup" set during the Mexican Revolution. When a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.
3) Pandarella
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A simplified version of the familiar fairy tale featuring a panda who, with help from her furry godmother, attends a ball and dances with a handsome prince. Includes a note on the history of the tale.
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En un bosque oscuro, un mercader recoge una rosa para su hija Bella. La flor pertenece a una bestia terrible. Para salvar su vida, el mercader promete a la criatura una visita de su hija. Con el tiempo, a Bella le agrada la bestia. Pero, ℗llegará alguna vez a amarla?
In a dark forest, a merchant picks a rose for his daughter Beauty. It belongs to a terrible beast. To save his life, the merchant promises that his daughter will visit the creature....
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A woman from the sea is captured by 17th century French sailors so that King Louis XIV can eat her rejuvenating organs. The captive, who has green hair and flaps for legs, sings beautifully and this moves a woman courtier to save her. A look at what it means to be human. In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the...
17) Reynard the Fox
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"Reynard--a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders--is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. How will he pit his wits against his accusers--greedy Bruin the Bear, pretentious Courtoys the Hound, and dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf--to escape the gallows?"--Dust jacket flap.
18) Red Riding Hood
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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.
20) Puss in boots
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"A retelling of the tale of a clever cat who wins a fortune and the hand of a princess for his master by impressing the king, in a text with liftable flaps and pop-up illustrations." --
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