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Maguire, Gregory.
LEAPING BEAUTY : AND OTHER ANIMAL FAIRY TALES
New York : HarperCollins, 2004.
IL 3-6, RL 4.9
ISBN  0060564180
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You all know your fairy tales right?  You know the story of Sleeping Beauty.  Well, do you know the story of Leaping Beauty?  The story of a frog with a promising dance career.  Or Cinder-elephant.  The story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet.  Well, you get the idea.  You may never look at the traditional fairy tales the same way again!
SUBJECTS:     Fairy tales.
                        Animals -- Fiction.
                        Short stories

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