Tag Archive | fractured fairy tale
Perfect Picture Book: Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter
Yesterday, Myra featured a powerful poem about women’s silence. Today, I share with you a lighter albeit stronger facet of women, as we continue our bimonthly theme, Girl Power and Women’s Wiles. This is also in keeping with the kidlit community’s celebration of Women’s Month. When I picked up Diane Stanley’s Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter from the […]
Lauren Child’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears
We have done quite a number of Lauren Child book reviews for our Fractured Fairy Tale Bimonthly theme – but it seems like we just could not get enough of her. So far, we have done a review of her The Princess and the Pea and Beware of the Storybook Wolves - now we share her Goldilocks and […]
Hipster, Avantgarde Bears: Steven Guarnaccia’s retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Tale Moderne
This version of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears is actually pretty straightforward as restorying goes. While the plot and the twists remain true to the original, Steven Guarnaccia introduced a different dimension to the visual narrative. Our bears are modern-day hipsters! An interesting addition to our Fractured Fairytale theme this July and August. […]
Book Talk Tuesday: Spinoff from Sleeping Beauty – ‘Snoring Beauty’ by Bruce Hale and Illustrated by Howard Fine
I knew I had something special in my hands the minute I read through the first page of the book. Apart from being a lovely addition to our Fractured Fairytale theme this July-August, it is also one interesting book we can contribute to the regulars of Book Talk Tuesday being hosted by Kelly Butcher, Rock Star […]
