fairy tale retellings
The Sausage Princess and Other Stories: Reshaping the Bizarre Structure of Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales through Gaming: The Ancient Arc of Modern Storytelling
Fairy Tales Gorgeously Reimagined: The Starlit Wood
Vassa in the Night
Fairy Tales and Folklore, Young Adult || A modern retelling of the Russian folktale “Vassilissa the Beautiful”. In Vassa’s Brooklyn neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumbling out again could become an issue...
“What’s Past is Prologue”: Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose
Briar Rose
Fairy Tales and Folklore, Historical || Read the new preface from Jane Yolen's graceful retelling of the German folktale of “Briar Rose”—also known as “Sleeping Beauty”. Yolen sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II, and confronts the deeply tragic events of the Holocaust with lyrical prose and rich characterizations that tell a tale of good and evil, hope and despair.
Happily Remixed and Mashed-Up Ever After: Modern Fairy Tales!
Snow White: The Blankest Slate of Them All
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Sarah Pinborough
Been There, Done That: Why We Keep Retelling Fairy Tales
Fairy Tale Remix: “What Else is Disney Not Telling Us?”
The Fairest Of Them All: Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Cheesecloth and Blood, Marissa Meyer’s Scarlet
