Mixed Up Fairy Tales a Discussion and Some Picturebooks
I remember the first story I wrote for children. I was in grade 3. It was an assignment – write a mixed up fairy tale. Consequentially, I smushed the Princess […]
Giving Faces to Disney Princesses
Giving faces to Disney Princesses? What do you mean, you say? Well, English student Jirka Väätäinen has done just that and given Disney princesses faces that are actually a pretty […]
Artist Spotlight: Kathryn Shoemaker
Sometime this past summer, Kathie Shoemaker created fairy tale themed centrepieces for a friend’s wedding. As it fits rather snugly into our blog’s theme of the month, Kathie has graciously […]
Fairy Tale Comics
Source: Review Copy from First Second. Expected Publishing Date: 24th September, 2013. [Goodreads Link] “Choosing the tales for this book involved the best kind of research: reading as many fairy […]
Interview with Merrie Haskell
Merrie Haskell is the author of The Princess Curse (2011), Handbook for Dragon Slayers (2013), and the soon-to-be-published The Castle Behind Thorns. She has also written several short stories. The […]
Cinderella Retellings: A Bibliography
The Cinderella tale is arguably one of the most popular canonical fairy tales in existence. The earliest known version is actually Ye Xian, a 9th century Chinese fairy tale that bears striking […]
Interview with Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer burst upon the YA Lit scene with her wonderful retelling of popular fairytale, Cinderella. Cinder, the first in the Lunar Chronicles quartet, stars a Cyborg reincarnation of Cinderella and […]
Little Snow White Lost in the Woods
Now the poor child was all alone in the great forest, and so terrified that she looked at all the leaves on the trees, and did not know what to […]
What is a Fairy Tale Retelling?
“What’s the use of stories if they aren’t even true?” – Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories Giving this month a title was more problematic than might be apparent. […]
The Book Wars 