Leaping Beauty : And Other Animal Fairy Tales
by Gregory Maguire, Chris L. Demarest
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Author: Chris L. Demarest, Gregory MaguireEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 208
Book Reviews of Leaping Beauty : And Other Animal Fairy Tales
Book Review: Stories Vary in Quality
Summary: 3 Stars
This collection of fractured fairy tales as this growing genre is getting to become known does vary dramatically from story to story. Leaping Beauty the title story is pretty average and pretty much the original just with animal characters but the higher quality where the author has included a bit of his own creativity and humour that you were probably looking for is achieved with later stories such as Rumplesnakeskin, Hamster and Gerbil and Goldiefox and the Three Chickens. Overall this collection has enough good stories to check it out if it's reasonably priced or on the shelf in your local library but I wouldn't fork out a lot of money for it.
Much better competitors in this genre are out there such as Porkenstein by Kathryn Laskya sequel to the Three Little Pigs where the remaining and now very lonely pig decides to make a new friend. Whatever Happened to ....?: The Ultimate Sequels Book by Adrian Mourby is another great read containing sequels of many classic tales where we find out the wolf was framed, what became of the wooden boy when Pinocchio became real etc. Once upon a crime tr by various authors contains Parodies of classic fairy tales as well as short stories that compare modern type crimes to Black Forrest style tales. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times by James Finn Garner parodies classic fairy tales while also paying out right wing politically correct extremists, a few sequels also exist but they're not as good the original. Who can forget the classic 80's Peter and the Wolf: Carnival of the Animals, Pt. II a narrative tale read by Weird Al Yankovic on CD, the funniest parody of a fairy tale ever done.
Summary of Leaping Beauty : And Other Animal Fairy Tales
Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series The Hamlet Chronicles.Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes, and one very bad walrus.
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