Fantasy and Fairytales for Easy Readers

Enjoy this list of easy fiction and nonfiction books that follow the theme for our SweetBean Reading Challenge in June!

Updated May 29, 2024
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Chicken in the kitchen
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate, of course! When Anyaugo follows a giant chicken into her kitchen one warm night in Nigeria, she embarks on a fun-filled adventure where nothing is quite as it seems. Is the...
Instructions : [everything you'll need to know on your journey]
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before, say 'please' before you open the latch, go through, walk down the path... The reader is invited on a lyrical journey peopled by a cast of mythical characters, with a set of instructions that is both intriguing and reassuring....
Little Red and the very hungry lion
Smith, Alex T.
Paper Book
  A classic fairy tale with a twist by the bestselling Alex T. Smith Little Red sets off to visit her auntie who is poorly. She walks under the giraffes, over the sleepy crocodiles, past the enormous elephants and the chattering monkeys. Then a Very Hungry Lion...
Once upon a dragon's fire
Blue, Beatrice
Paper Book
This heartwarming story of how dragons got their fire is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Once Upon a Unicorn Horn.
Rapunzel
Woollvin, Bethan
Paper Book
Golden-haired princess Rapunzel is kept trapped in her lofty tower by a wicked witch, who lops off locks of her beautiful hair and sells them for her own profit. Can Rapunzel ever figure out a way to escape? From creator of Little Red, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 2016, comes...
The three billy goats gruff
Barnett, Mac
Paper Book
  A brilliant retelling of the well-loved classic The Three Billy Goats Gruff- with a hilarious twist! I am a troll. I live to eat. I love the sound of hooves and feet and paws and claws on cobblestones. For that's the sound of meat and bones! What...
Very little Cinderella
Heapy, Teresa
Paper Book
Just like her pal, Red Riding Hood, Very Little Cinderella is little. Very little. But she's got a very BIG personality and one way or another she usually seems to bend others to her will. Albeit very charmingly. Join Very Little Cinderella on her very important mission: to go to the...

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