Berthoud Community Library District

Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller's daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story. Vivian Vande Velde has wondered too, and she's come up with these six alternative versions of the old legend. A bevy of miller's daughters confront their perilous situation...

Relates the tale of Jack who, after trading his mother's milk cow for magic beans, climbs a beanstalk to seek his missing father in the land of giants.

Princess Emma is determined, with the help of her favorite bat, Li'l, and some long-lost ancestors, to reverse the curse put upon her lineage by an angry fairy.

A determined princess, whose father's policy of keeping strangers off their island kingdom has made her curious about the outside world, finally gets her wish to meet someone new.

Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.

The story of the Three Little Pigs.