Fables and Fairy Tale Books for Kids and Fun Activities

I’m pretty sure that you can retell at least one fairy tale or fable from memory. And, you probably have some fond memories of someone reading one to you. Let’s dive into the world of talking characters, good vs evil, and so much more in these fable and fairy tale books for kids.

Best Fairy Tale Mash-Up Books for Children

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Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure chapter books of your childhood? Well, now you can have the same fun in a picture book adventure. Endlessly Ever After by Laure Snyder is a mash-up of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack, Hansel, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, a wolf, a witch, a goose, a grandmother, some pigs, and endless variations. Get ready for lots of adventures.

The Wrong Fairy Tale series mashes up a few stories into one. For example, two fairy tales collide in Jack and the Three Bears by Turner. Turns out Little Bear and his family spot a beanstalk on their walk while the porridge cools and they meet Jack at the top. Will they be able to escape from the giant?

From Cinderella and the Seven Dwarfs to Red Riding Hood and the Three Billy Goats Gruff, there is lots of mixed-up fun to be had.

More Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables

After reading Cinderella with Dogs by Linda Bailey, I decided we need more dogs in fairy tales! Cinderella is given a fairy dogmother who decks her out in doggish style and escorts her dogs and all to the ball where she meets a dog-loving prince.

Let’s keep the Cinderella variations going with Cinderstella A Tale of Planets Not Princes by Brenda S. Miles. Cinderstella is pawning for a prince she has aspirations to be an astronaut.

Ready for a girl empowerment version of Cinderella with a Christmas twist? Check out Santarella by Suzy Senior. Will Santarella really attend the ball and fall in love with a prince or will she take to the skies and explore the world?

Reading Beauty by Deborah Underwood is the story of Princess Lex who has to bring books back to the land after a paper-cut curse. She is brave and determined.

Hansel and Gretel are about to set the narrator straight in Not Hansel and Gretel by Josh Funk. The story is playful fun and full of dialogue.

The Pirates Are Coming! by John Condon is a take on The Boy Who Cried Wolf! Tom rings the bell one too many times to warn that a pirate ship is coming. But, what happens when the pirates really do show up?