Rumpelstiltskin

LeVar finds this era coming to life when he visits a Renaissance festival in California. Viewers, too, will experience what it was like to live in the days of lords, kings and queens, and knights in shining armor. LeVar explores the festival where daily life-such as spinning and weaving-is reenacted, and traveling performers – such as minstrels and jesters-all take part in the fanfare.

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Rumpelstiltskin

This classic fairy tale is about a strange little man who helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king, with the condition that she will give him her firstborn child.

Retold by: Paul O. Zelinsky
Illustrator: Paul O. Zelinsky
Publisher: Penguin

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A Medieval Feast

A Medieval Feast

Describes the preparation and celebration of a medieval feast held at an English manor house entertaining royal guests.

Author: Aliki
Illustrator: Aliki
Publisher: Harper Collins

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The Story of a Castle

The Story of a Castle

This wordless picture book traces the life of a typical English castle from the 1170s, when the Normans built it, through a civil war in the 1600s, through the two world wars in the twentieth century, to the 1970s, when it is opened to the public.

Author: John S. Goodall
Illustrator: John S. Goodall
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty

In this folktale, a princess who is cursed by the wrathful Blue Faerie, on the day she is born, pricks her finger on her seventeenth birthday. Under the evil curse, she falls into a deep sleep for 100 years, until someone who loves her more than life itself kisses her.

Retold by: Mercer Mayer
Illustrator: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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