Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. New York: Berkeley Prime Crime, Fisher, David. Wicked Witch. New York: Warner, Garner, James Finn. New York: Hungry Minds Inc, Hoffman, Nina Kiriki.
Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, eds. New York: DAW, Denise Little, editor. Jacobs, A. New York: Bantam, Kilworth, Garry. Lee, Tanith. Buy the book in paperback. McKillip, Patricia A. McKinley, Robin. New York: Greenwillow Books, Once again, McKinley enhances the fantasy genre with her fairy tales variations. Oertel, Liya Lev. Bruce Lansky, ed. New York: Meadowbrook Press, Quinn, Daniel. Schlachter, Rita. Sherman, Josepha.
Denise Little, ed. Vande Velde, Vivian. Walker, Barbara. San Francisco: Harper, Wilson, Gahan. Bloch, Chana. Marilyn Sewell, editor. Beacon Press, Paperback: Houghton Mifflin, Brewster, Elizabeth. Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Carlisle, Wendy Taylor. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Carryl, Guy Wetmore. DeFoe, Mark. Denise, Anna. Graves, Robert Ranke. Hay, Sara Henderson.
Hill, Hyacinthe. Jones, Paul R. Kinnell, Galway. Also available in: Kinnell, Galway. Lochhead, Liz. London: Polygon Books, The Grimm Sisters. Machan, Katharyn Howd. Miller, John R. New York: Harper Perennial, Mitchell, Susan. Also available in: Mitchell, Susan. Pack, Robert. Pettingell, Phoebe.
Sansom, Clive. London: Leslie Frewin, Sexton, Anne. Houghton Mifflin Co. This poem is available online through Plagiarist. Smith, Florence Margaret.
Smith, Stevie. Strauss, Gwen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Thomas, Joyce. Thompson, Phyllis Hoge. Viorst, Judith. New York: Atheneum, Yolen, Jane. I have listed primarily classical compositions of music using the themes of this fairy tale in either ballet, opera or some other musical style. I have also provided links to popular recordings of the music when available at Amazon. The advantage to these links is that you can listen to samples of the music at no charge. Download the song.
The song also appears on Secret World Live To learn more about these films, please visit the Internet Movie Database. The Frog and the Princess Eddie Donnelly, director. Lotte Reiniger is historically important as an early animator, specializing in shadow puppet animation, also known as silhouette animation.
She was arguably the best talent in this particular craft. She started in silent films while living in Germany and continued producing shorts for over 40 years, primarily in the UK.
This production was an Interlude for Theatrical Performance. Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince Jim Henson, director. The Frog Prince gets an early Muppet interpretation. One day, she finds a small frog who can understand what she says. The frog claims to really be a prince, also enchanted by an evil witch. Together they must try to break their spells.
The Frog King Tom Davenport, director. Davenport Films , an independent film company, has a wonderful short film based on The Frog King. Please follow these links or click on the photo still to visit their website and learn more about this film.
Eric Idle, director. Cast: Rene Auberjonois King Ulrich Robin Williams The Frog Prince Teri Garr The Princess Eric Idle This television series originally aired on Showtime for six seasons and a total of 27 episodes. A toad helps her and in return demands to be fed and to sleep in their house.
Based on the Scottish tale. Walter Beck, director. East Germany. Cast: Jana Mattukat Henriette Jens-Uwe Bogadtke A talking frog replaces it with a golden ball, on condition that he can eat and drink with her, and rest in her bed. She accepts, but then is repelled at the thought of the frog eating and drinking with her, etc, but her Father makes her do so. In her bedroom, the frog turns into a handsome prince, and she falls in love with him, but he leaves immediately becasue of her broken promises.
She pines and eventually seeks him out, braving various tests of her truthfulness in the process. Jackson Hunsicker, director. Cast: Aileen Quinn Princess Zora Helen Hunt Princess Henrietta John Paragon King William.
Cast: Eden Riegel Princess John Seitz Father Evelyn Solann His Frog King , which was also well-received, preceded it. Not for kids!
Prince Charming ; US premiere Allan Arkush, director. Cast: Martin Short Rodney Christina Applegate Kate Andrea Martin Serena Billy Connolly Hamish Bernadette Peters Margo Sean Maguire Prince 'Charming' John.
Made for TV movie. On the day of his marriage to Princess Gwendolyn, Prince John Maguire finds himself in a compromising situation with a damsel in distress. As punishment, he and his squire, Rodney Short , are subjected to a "frogging," transforming them into frogs for all eternity, or until the prince can convince a maiden not only to kiss him but also marry him.
After centuries on the pond, John and Rodney are accidentally transported to New York's Central Park and an amazing new world full of taxis, skyscrapers, graffiti and-of course-damsels. In no time at all, the prince gets his kiss and he and Rodney return to human form.
But staying that way won't be easy. It's streetwise Kate Applegate who has captured John's heart, but, unfortunately, she's not the woman he kissed.
In order to break the curse forever, he must convince Margo Peters , a Broadway diva, to marry him. Martin portrays Margo's wardrobe mistress, Serena. The Frog Princess Ron Clements and John Muster, directors. Walt Disney Productions. Featuring Disney's first offering of a black princess in its line of many princess films, the film is also promoted as a return to hand drawn animation techniques and an American fairy tale set in Louisiana.
Speculation over storyline and its relation to The Frog King and Frog Princess tales will continue until the film's release. Ayckbourn, Alan. New York: Samuel French. They tell Fred that they are slaves of the Storytellers who control their every move. Once they had a champion, Flavius, who nearly managed to wrest storytelling control back into their hands where it belongs.
The Players react fearfully and the stories begin. First an inaccurate version of Hansel and Gretel is told by Erraticus. An equally eccentric rendering of The Frog Prince by Oblivious follows.
During this, Fred is identified as the long lost Flavius. In the third tale, Repetitus tries to destroy Flavius and nearly succeeds, but Flavius vanquishes the Storytellers forever. Haubold, Cleve. The Golden Grotto. Music by James Hitt. Through the spell of a bumbling magician, a happy frog is transformed into a shy prince with a head-cold.
Princess Blanda and her hand-maidens lose a golden ball in the grotto. This infuriates her father, King Ludwig, and involves everyone in a riotous series of misadventures as they attempt to retrieve the ball, calm the king and correct the wizard's increasingly confused conjuring. The witless wizard, a worried nurse-maid, a kindly-uncle sort of dragon and a Valkyrie join in the adventure, which ends with a surprising series of magical transformations and a joyous finale.
Hotchner, Kathy. The Tale of the Frog Prince. Music by Bill Roser. Read more about the play on the Dramatic Publishing website. The author turns his considerable talents to the age-old children's story of the prince who is turned into a frog and must find a pure and honest woman to kiss him of her own free will.
The old tale is given a decidedly contemporary sensibility that appeals to adults as well as to children. New York State Theatre Institute.
Vasilisa, the Fair The Frog Princess. He shot an arrow in the air. It fell to earth he didn't care where. He didn't want to do it but his father made him. When the Tsar of all Russia tells you to shoot an arrow and marry the closest young thing to wherever it lands, you do it.
Even if it lands in a swamp by a frog. So Prince Ivan agrees to marry his green quarry, and that's when the trouble starts. This frog is a princess and for hundreds of years she has been loved by the people of Russia. Wonderful Russian folk characters, including a fire-breathing bear, a wicked wizard and his sister, and the witch Baba Yaga enrich this wonderful tale for children of all ages.
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Start your review of Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog. May 30, Heather rated it really liked it Shelves: children-s-lit. Early Chapter Book Davey is out with his friend and they are looking for frogs. He finds a talking frog with blue eyes. In a Prince and the Frog take on an old classic adventures and self-discovery ensue.
I really enjoyed this rendition of the classic. I think it is important to re-invent classics for younger and older audiences. This one engages the adult and the child and keeps it relevant for the reader.
I really enjoyed the interactions between Becky and Davey as well as Kevin and Davey. I wou Early Chapter Book Davey is out with his friend and they are looking for frogs. I would incorporate this book with a fairytale section in my classroom. I like to mix the new and old fairytales because you never know which style will engage which child and variety helps. May 19, Lara rated it liked it Shelves: juv-fic.
I wonder why there are so many human-transformed-into-frog stories. There must be something about frogs, maybe their hands, that make us relate to them on some level. Anyway, this is one of those, and the frog princess is very feisty and I liked the illustrations at the beginning of each chapter that shows her in various seething attitudes.
I also liked how Davey figures out how selfish and irresponsible he's being toward his animal pets and makes a turn around, which was missing in the Gorfman I wonder why there are so many human-transformed-into-frog stories.
I also liked how Davey figures out how selfish and irresponsible he's being toward his animal pets and makes a turn around, which was missing in the Gorfman book. Jan 19, Mrs. Davey and the Blue-Eyed Frog this story is a spin off of the girl who finds a handsome prince stuck in a frogs body. This time the spin is opposite as Davey finds a frog with blue eyes and talks of her days as a princess and requests but one simple thing form Davey-a kiss.
The humors story is a fun read for beginning chapter book readers. Along with the large text there are numerous full page black and white drawings are intermixed through out the book. Jul 26, Andrea rated it really liked it Shelves: childrens-books , literature-and-fiction , read-to-my-kids.
This was a fun kid's book. I read it to my kids for a bed time story and they really enjoyed the story and the pictures. After I read it to them, we were able to talk about being nice to others and discuss times in the books when the characters were and weren't nice to each other. May 15, Sabrina rated it it was amazing Shelves: early-readers-including-chapter-boo.
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