On the Importance of Retellings, a Guest Post by Laura MacDonald
I think there are a myriad of ways to consider a story a “retelling.” It could be a contemporary retelling of a classic tale (such as Ella Enchanted as a […]
Category Archives: Retellings
Review: Hunting Monsters by S. L. Huang
My mother taught me to shoot, but it was Auntie Rosa who bought me my first rifle. It was long and sleek and shiny, varnished wood and brass and just […]
Wishing for Tomorrow: Continuing and Reimagining A Little Princess
At the end of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, Sara Crewe leaves Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary, where she had begun as a cossetted pupil before being savagely stripped of her […]
Continuing the War Against Fairy Godmothers: A Discussion of Ash and Bramble by Sarah Prineas
Hardcover, 464 pages Published September 15th 2015 by HarperTeen Source: Library If you’ve been reading us for a while, you’ll remember that one of the first essays I posted on […]
Blog Tour: Fable Comics edited by Chris Duffy
Hardcover, 128 pages Published September 22nd 2015 by First Second Source: Publisher From classics like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Grasshopper and the Ants” to obscure gems like […]
Retelling: Cruel Sisters: short story from song
The bare bones of the Twa Sisters ballad goes something like this:* two sisters walk by the water’s edge the elder pushes the younger in the younger sister drowns Most variants, […]
Guest Post: Alison Croggon on Black Spring
Alison Croggon is the author of the young adult fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor. The first volume was nominated in two categories in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in […]
Guest Post by Cassandra White: Alison Croggon’s Black Spring: a reimagining of Wuthering Heights
Cassandra White has a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her particular academic interests are the gothic and sisterhood in young adult […]
Reading While White
Exactly half a month ago, on September 15th, 2015, the blog Reading While White launched its first official post, titled, “Why a White Blog?” I was floored. In this starting […]
For the Reluctant Reader: The Ravenous Gown and 14 More Tales About Real Beauty by Steffani Raff
Last week I talked about the sources of reluctance in reluctant readers. Today I offer one of the ways in which to, if not remove, then challenge this reluctance. Sometimes, […]
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