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| Genre/Form: | Novels in verse Fairy tales Juvenile fiction Fiction |
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| Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Koertge; Andrea Dezso |
| ISBN: | 9780763644062 0763644064 |
| OCLC Number: | 758389107 |
| Description: | 87 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The stepsisters -- Rapunzel: a story in five parts -- Thumbelina: the mole's story -- The little match girl -- Bearskin -- Twelve dancing princesses -- Memoirs of the beast -- Hansel and Gretel -- Godfather death -- The ugly duckling -- Diamonds and toads -- The frog prince -- The emperor's new clothes: an afterword -- The robber bridegroom -- Rumpelstiltskin -- The little, small, wee bear -- Bluebeard -- Little thumb -- Red Riding Hood, Home at last, Tells her mother what happened -- East of the sun and west of the moon -- The princess and the pea: a monologue -- The ogre queen -- Wolf. |
| Other Titles: | Lies, knives & girls in red dresses |
| Responsibility: | Ron Koertge ; illustrated by Andrea Dezsö. |
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A Twist to the old tale
This one is wickedly delicious! The 23 stories in this book return the morality to fairy tales in a twisted and subversive way. Good guy/gals are really the bad characters in the tale and sometimes there isn't a happily ever after, just an Ever After. These would make great read-alouds but I'm not...
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This one is wickedly delicious! The 23 stories in this book return the morality to fairy tales in a twisted and subversive way. Good guy/gals are really the bad characters in the tale and sometimes there isn't a happily ever after, just an Ever After. These would make great read-alouds but I'm not sure what audience you would read them aloud to! I haven't mentioned the illustrations yet, disturbing, very disturbing though they fit the tone of the book perfectly. Look for this book at high school.
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