Start with high-confidence folktale retellings books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
The Wolf Who Cried Boy
Bob Hartman, Tim Raglin
Red: the (fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood
Liesl Shurtliff
Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis
Little Red Hot
Eric A. Kimmel, Laura Huliska-Beith
Cinderella Stories Around the World
Cari Meister, Carolina Farías
Aesop's Fables Hardcover
Aesop, Charles Santore
Little Red
Bethan Woollvin
The Paper Bag Princess (classic Munsch)
Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko
