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• Between the Lions - "Oh, Yes, It Can!"
  The library has a very special guest storyteller. Her name is Karen Kandel and she tells an Ashanti fairy tale that seems to come to life. The sound of the day is a short "a" found in words such as "can," "fast," and "trap."
• Sesame Street - "#4061, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother's Mistake"
  Zoe and Baby Bear are very excited because Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother are visiting Sesame Street! However, when it is time for Cinderella to go to the ball, her Godmother accidentally turns Cinderella into a chicken! The Fairy Godmother is distraught. She hands her want over to Zoe and Baby Bear and leaves!

Do in Class

• Arthur: Creative Extensions - Apply fun new ideas to your favorite tunes, nursery rhymes, or fairy tales.
• Dragon Tales: Back to the Fairy Tales - Allow kids to choose a favorite persona from a fairy tale to emulate during a pretend party.
• Dragon Tales: View and Do - The Four Little Pigs - Make brown paper bag or sock puppets and put on a puppet show.
• Reading Rainbow: Rumplestiltskin Family Activity - Do some family research to learn how every family member got his or her name.
• ZOOM: Playhouse - Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Perform this Ubbi Dubbi Fairy Tale by the ZOOMers.
• ZOOM: Playhouse - Perform your choice of ZOOM Fairy Tales including Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Bears, or Chicken Little.

Read

• Cinderella's Dress
  By Nancy Willard and Jane Dyer
  Published October 2003 by Blue Sky Press
  This verse retelling of a familiar fairy tale is told from the point-of-view of two magpies that hold the secret to Cinderella's future happiness. Willard provides poetry and rhyme without the sing-song.
• The Three Pigs
  By David Wiesner
  Published April 2001 by Clarion Books
  Wiesner's picture book has three pigs and a wolf but takes an unexpected turn as soon as the wolf blows the first pig out of the story to safety in the margins. Folding a page of their story into a paper airplane, the three pigs avoid the wolf's jaws by flying into nursery rhymes and fairy tales of dragons and golden roses. The story still ends badly for the poor wolf, but then he's not a very clever wolf.

*As most PBS children's programs offer one year extended taping rights for teachers, please feel free to tape them now and save them for use in your classroom during the school year.