Newfangled Fairy Tales

by Bruce Lansky

Book Overview

This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881662992
• ISBN13: 9780881662993
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Meadowbrook Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

Now That's What I Call Fairy Tales

Now, finally, at last - those old fairy tales have been exposed for the drivel they are! Did you ever stop to think that Sleeping Beauty might have been neutralised because she was a miserable young woman? Or that Goldilocks wore red because her mother got a great deal on a bolt of red cloth? Or even that those dragon fights were rigged? Okay, I still love fairy tales, but after reading this collection, you realise that the Grimm Brothers and Anderson and the other famous story tellers wrote stories with plots that would never hold up today. They were also much too long - this little 110 page (big print) book, holds ten fractured fairy tales, taking a rib-tickling half an hour to read (slowly). It's a children's book sure enough, but even grown-ups (especially the young at heart) will appreciate the skewering of the cherished tales of Goldilocks, Snow White, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Jack & The Beanstalk, The Frog Princess, King Midas, and more. This book tells it the way it really was - before those interfering writers went and changed them up to be politically correct. Just to be safe though, make sure you read the original versions as well. Amanda Richards, February 27, 2005

monica's reveiw on book

Monica: I thought this story was very good. I thought this because when we read it over some parts made all of us laugh. One part that I thought was funny was when they can never get Rumplistiltskin's name right. I had a lot of fun acting this play out.

Katherine's Opinion of the Book

Katherine: I thought the book was good. I like how they say stuff like rumplistiltskin was the one who got the big bad wolf and stuff like that. I also like how it makes every thing funny .I like it when the Millers daughter puts Rumplistiltskin in a half nelson

Fun, clever, and imaginative.

No one gets rewarded for stealing, for killing, or for being a spoilt brat. It's about time someone realized that most of the classic fairy tales should really be rated R and that they teach kis all kinds of wrong lessons. The heroes in this series are good role models and have fun as well. Wonderful for kids (and adults) of all ages.

Great Book!

My eight year old and ten year old really enjoy this book. The stories are funny, and still maintain the morals of traditional fairy tails. They especially like "The Real Story of Sleeping Beauty"