fairy tale retellings

Announcing a New Novella from Nebula Award-winner Rachel Swirsky

Ruoxi Chen

Mon Dec 4, 2017 9:00am

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The Sausage Princess, or, Reshaping the Bizarre Structure of Fairy Tales

Ursula Vernon

Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:00pm

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Transforming a Fairy Tale into Court Politics: Kara Dalkey’s The Nightingale

Mari Ness

Thu Aug 3, 2017 3:00pm

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The Sausage Princess and Other Stories: Reshaping the Bizarre Structure of Fairy Tales

Ursula Vernon

Wed May 10, 2017 10:00am

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Fairy Tales through Gaming: The Ancient Arc of Modern Storytelling

Whitney Strix Beltrán

Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:00am

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Fairy Tales Gorgeously Reimagined: The Starlit Wood

Haralambi Markov

Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:30pm

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Vassa in the Night

Sarah Porter

Tue Aug 9, 2016 11:30am

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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

Alex Brown

Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:30pm

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Briar Rose

Jane Yolen

Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:00pm

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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.