Scary Tales Retold: The Witch and the Nightingale

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Scary Tales Retold: The Witch and the Nightingale

Scary Tales Retold: The Witch and the Nightingale

In this updated retelling of Brother Grimm’s “Jorinda and Joringel” a shape-changing witch protects her privacy at all costs. When the engaged couple Jorinda and Jacob stumble into the witch’s part of the forest, she takes them captive. The hateful witch changes Jorinda into a singing bird. Will her fiancé save her or will the witch keep her singing bird caged forever?

About This Book

By: Wiley Blevins
Illustrated by: Steve Cox
Published by: Red Chair Press
5-9Age Range
3.4 AR
28Pages
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & MythsSubject
550LLexile
5-20 minsReading Time
-Guided Reading
MFountas & Pinnell
-DRA