Books like Hilary Knight's Cinderella
By Hilary Knight
For the kid who's heard Cinderella a dozen times, this version hands the familiar story to an illustrator with a wickedly playful eye for detail. Whimsical, wry, and warmly old-fashioned, with a wink underneath the fairy tale.
A young princess falls ill and declares she'll only get better if she has the moon, sending the king's wisest advisors scrambling until the court jester finds an answer no one else thought to try.
A witch and her cat fly happily on a broomstick until the wind blows away her hat, bow, and wand — and the animals who return them all want a ride, leaving no room to spare when a hungry dragon attacks.
A witch grows the biggest pumpkin ever but can't pull it off the vine — and neither can the ghost, the vampire, or the mummy — until the tiniest creature of all comes up with an idea.
Bored with ordinary weather, a king orders his royal magicians to invent something new to fall from the sky — and gets a sticky green goo called Oobleck that soon overwhelms his entire kingdom.
A poor miller's son inherits nothing but a cat — but that cat, fitted with a fine pair of boots, sets out to turn his master into the Marquis of Carabas, tricking his way toward a castle, a fortune, and a princess's hand.
A girl and her walking house settle into a too-quiet neighborhood, so she puts up a sign inviting lost creatures in — goblins, mermaids, a dragon — and soon has a household that's lively but hard to manage.
A grandmother with a mountain of yarn and too many grandchildren shouts 'LEAVE ME ALONE!' and sets off past bears, goats, and aliens — all the way to the moon — just to finish her knitting in peace.
A lazy servant girl strikes a bargain with a devil who spins and knits for her in secret, buying her an easy life with the Squire — until she must guess his name or pay his price.
A clever spider man sets out to buy all the world's stories from the Sky God, who demands an impossible price: a fierce leopard, a fire-stinging hornet, and a fairy no one can see.
Six classic fairy tales get turned upside down in rambunctious rhyme, as Cinderella, Snow-White, Goldilocks, and more veer wildly off script into unexpected, surprising endings.
A child imagines an entire day as a horse — galloping through familiar settings, wondering if they'd fit in their clothes, and whether a little sister would get a ride.
