Title: The Merchant’s Daughter Author: Melanie Dickerson Rating: 4/5 Retelling of: Beauty and the Beast The Twist: Set like a historical fiction in medieval England, there’s a distinct lack of magic involved, so this is a more realistic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Melanie Dickerson is a wonderful author …
Last Saturday I got the opportunity to review A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan, which I loved. And I love it even more now that I’ve gotten to chat with Annie Sullivan herself. Curious about the sorts of things that go on “behind the scenes” or in a writer’s …
Evil stepmothers have been present in fairy tales almost since the beginning. And they’ve been problematic almost as long. Many scholars point out that stepmothers weren’t uncommon, any more than they are today, in the ages before fairy tales and when fairy tales were rising in popularity. This is due …
Title: A Touch of GoldAuthor: Annie Sullivan Rating: 4.5/5 Retelling of: King Midas The Twist: The curse of Midas has already happened, and we see how it affects the daughter he turned to gold during his curse. Also, pirates. Let me just open by saying — yes, this isn’t a …
I kind of dropped the ball to post Tuesday, so today I’m giving you a double feature. A spotlight about another not-as-well-known fairy tale — and some exciting news of my own! King Thrushbeard is the 52nd story in the Brothers Grimm collection, and one of the most controversial. Ironically, …
We’re trying something different today! Instead of a typical review of a fairy tale retelling, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing an author who has written one. Kristy Brown is the author of Cinderfella, a modern-day adaptation where the roles of the prince and Cinderella are reversed, as well as …
Yesterday was the spring equinox, the first day of spring, so I thought I’d do a small fairy tale spotlight that sort of goes with the theme — Thumbelina. While a lot of Thumbelina imagery revolves around summer and winter, the season Thumbelina most longs for and the season she …
True love’s kiss has been a fairy tale trope longer than anyone can remember. But is it actually a common in fairy tales? I think you’d be surprised how little people kiss in fairy tales. Disney and other largely popular media outlets would have you think that all curses are …
Title: The Stillness of the Sky Author: Starla Huchton Rating: 7/10 Retelling of: Jack and the Beanstalk The Twist: Genderbending mainly, but also weaving in other fairy tales, and generating sympathy for the giants, rather than malice or violence Finally got around to reading the next in Starla Huchton’s Flipped …
We see a lot of spinning in fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a spindle or spinning wheel, Rumplestiltskin spins gold for helpless a girl, the girl in “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” uses a golden spinning wheel to win her husband’s freedom…you get the …
