Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
Hardcover, 208 pages Expected publication: September 6th 2016 by First Second Source: Publisher Mighty Jack is Ben Hatke’s first foray into fairytale retelling and if Mighty Jack is anything to […]
Category Archives: Retellings
Review: Stars Above by Marissa Meyer (A Lunar Chronicles Collection)
Hardcover, 304 pages Expected publication: February 2nd 2016 by Feiwel & Friends Source: Publisher The Lunar Chronicles is received by a mix of feelings: some people love it, some people are indifferent, […]
Review: Enola Holmes Mysteries series by Nancy Springer
Published by Philomel Source: Library/Purchased I read The Case of the Missing Marquess, the first in the Enola Holmes series in 2013 and kept meaning to pick up the next books in the series […]
Review: A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchison
Hardcover, 311 pages Published September 1st 2013 by Carolrhoda Lab Source: Library “How many ways can a heart break? I suspect, because of Dane, I will discover them all.” There’s […]
Review: Fighting Demons by S. L. Huang
It has been two years since Rosa fled the west, walking out on Xiao Hong and Mei, breaking their family […] Xiao Hong’s mother makes the hard decision to return […]
A re-re-told story: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – the book
It was a pleasant surprise to find, quite by chance at the library, that there was a book version of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing […]
Blog Tour: The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris
Hardcover, 176 pages Published October 1st 2015 by Frances Lincoln Children’s Bks Source: Publisher If you’re not familiar with “The Wild Swans” by Hans Christen Anderson then let me present […]
Come On In: A List Of Retellings
Recently, Laura wrote a fantastic post on the importance of retelling. In it, she talks about the popular use of the hero’s journey in fiction, and how it’s typically a […]
Guest Post: Rhiannon Thomas on Retelling Sleeping Beauty
Rhiannon Thomas is a recent graduate from Princeton University, where she studied English and Japanese, and smuggled bubble tea into the library on a regular basis. She now lives in […]
Review: A Wicked Thing (A Wicked Thing #1) by Rhiannon Thomas
Hardcover, 337 pages Published February 24th 2015 by HarperTeen Source: Library I read this book quite a while ago but such is the strength of the tale it told that […]
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