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Modern Day Fairy Tales
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- Card, Orson Scott. Enchantment
A young man seems to have fallen into the fairy tale sleeping
bueaty...
- Donoghue Emma.Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Tales familiar to us all, with an unusual twist. Cinderella,
Sleeping Beauty, all your fairy tale favorites, here they tell you
the REAL story.
- Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted
In this delightful retelling of Cinderella, Ella is blessed at
birth with the gift of obedience, and must do everything she is told.
- Tomlinson, Theresa. Forestwife
The legend of Robin Hood is vividly portrayed from Maid Marian's
point of view. She flees from an unwanted betrothal to the forest
and develops a love of life while helping the poor with the man
she loves.
- Yole, Jane. Briar Rose
Becca's grandmother has always told the story of Sleeping Beauty
as if the event had happened to her. Could her grandmother really
be Sleeping Beauty?
- Cadnum, Michael.In a Dark Wood
In another retelling of Robin Hood, from the Sheriff of Nottinghams' point
of view, we find the sheriff is not a despicable treasonous criminal but a
kind of likable, though complex, guy.
- McKinley, Robin.
Deerskin
After a childhood of being virtually forgotten, Lissar and her faithful
dog Ash are suddenly remembered by her father the king, and flee for their
lives to escape his malicious attentions.
- Joyce, Graham. Tooth Fairy.
When Sam loses his first tooth he meets the tooth fairy, a demonic being
who plagues Sam's childhood and adolescence as his sometimes foe,
sometimes ally, and always invisible to the rest of the world.
- Block, Francesca Lia. I was a Teenage Fairy
Descriptive language and funky characters are what make this story
of a teenage model and her spitfire pinky sized friend believable.
- Velde, Vivian Vande. Curses, Inc.
A witch who casts spells via the internet is the first of these modern
creatures you will meet in this collection of stories.
An adaptation of this list was first created by Erin Pierce and appeared
in the Next Generation Newsletter.
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