Little Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm; retold by Trina Schart Hyman; illus. by the retellerPrimary    Holiday    32 pp.9/23    9780823456437    $18.99Hyman’s much-loved retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” (a 1984 Caldecott Honor Book), with its endearing, pigeon-toed protagonist, is here reissued for a new generation of readers, with a...

Far Far Awayby Tom McNealMiddle School, High School     Knopf     373 pp.6/13     978-0-375-84972-5     $17.99Library ed. 978-0-375-94972-2     $20.99     ge-book ed. 978-0-375-89698-9     $10.99Sprightly, assured, and original, this story blends a small-town, middle-American, twentieth-century setting with the learned realms of the Brothers Grimm and their nineteenth-century...

By Nancy WillardI recently asked my students in a class on the history of fairy tales a simple question: What was your favorite fairy tale when you were growing up, and how did you find it? Or, to put it differently, how did that particular tale find you? These are...