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“[Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth century” —The New York Times Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed, from a spinner of straw as a money-changer and to the big bad wolf retiring to a nursing home. Rediscover the fables you once knew, rewritten and refined for the world we now live in.
Publication Year: 2018
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I love different takes on fairytales. This book is a full of short retellings. The introduction by Marissa Meyer was awesome and the authors discussion about how to deconstruct a fairytale was fantastic.
If you like retellings, this book might be an awesome way to palate cleanse between books. You could definitely read a few stories at a time. It would also be a great resource if you are looking to break a fairy tale down on your own.
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