Books like A Fairy Went A-Marketing
By Rose Fyleman
For the child who wants every stray creature carried home and cared for, this fairy models exactly that instinct, then gently shows what kindness really means. Gentle, old-fashioned, and quietly tender, with a rhyming, market-day rhythm.
A young girl finds a box of yarn that never runs out and knits sweaters for everyone and everything in her gray town — until a greedy archduke decides he wants the box for himself.
A girl named Treva notices her family's Christmas decorations and presents mysteriously vanishing, and when she tracks down the culprit, she finds two trolls who have never had a Christmas of their own.
A kind, beautiful maid comes to live in a mysterious castle with a Beast, where animals in period dress attend them both — and her capacity to love may be the only thing that can break his spell.
Scarred from tending the fire, a girl and her two beautiful but cruel sisters all try to win the hand of a rich, powerful Invisible Being — but only his sister's watchful gaze can tell who has truly seen him.
A mistreated girl endures her stepmother's and stepsisters' cruelty until a fairy godmother steps in with magical help, leading her to a meeting with the prince.
A little girl moves to a new town and finds a park named for butterflies — except none live there, so she rallies neighbors to help bring them home.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
A girl named Emily writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, insisting a blue whale is living in her pond, and the two trade letters all summer as he tries to set her straight.
Three traveling monks arrive in a war-weary village where suspicious neighbors hide their food and shutter their windows — until the monks offer to make soup from nothing but stones.
A rhyming picture book that considers love in all its moods — sentimental, silly, soulful — through a parade of animal characters and playful verse rather than a single storyline.
After a hunter kills his mother, a young elephant flees to the city, where a kindly old woman takes him in — then he returns to the great forest with his cousins Celeste and Arthur to become King of the Elephants.
A quiet, gentle ghost joins the Whittaker family on their seaside holiday, only to discover their rented cottage already has an occupant: a noisy ghost who needs help learning how to be useful.
