Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Modern Tales for Our Life and Times

by James Finn Garner

Book Overview

In a collection guaranteed to provoke both laughter and thought, 14 timeless fairy tales are revisited and reworked to become relevant fables for more modern times. These hilarious adaptations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002542730X
• ISBN13: 9780025427303
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

this book is not for children

this book is for adults, it has adult humor. The reason you found it too graphic to read to your kids is because it is not for them.

Fairy Tales as You've Never Read Them Before!

I reallllly enjoyed reading Garner's book "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" because he takes stories that we have all grown up with and revamps them to appeal to the modern reader. I think its fascinating how he can take something from the past and recreate it to critique modern society. The book is veryyyy enjoyable, and I doubt there is anyone who won't find him/herself laughing out loud at AT LEAST one moment in the book! For all of those who think that fairy tales are very basic and only appeal to the younger generation, think again! Garner is very witty and, if you enjoy his politically correct versions, read Bettelheim's interpretations as well..you'll find yourself even more shocked and surprised. :)

A wry parody of all things "politically correct."

Amusing retellings of the most familiar fairy-tales: Snow White (the dwarves become "vertically-challenged"), The Pied Piper of Hamiln (Hamlin has "ethno-religious diversity"), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (who live together "anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a neuclear family"), etc, etc, etc. The humor wears thin after a few tales, which are reasonably short, so this works best as a bathroom book. Not for children, as they would ask far too many questions.

Politically correct has never been so fun!

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories went beyond satirizing many aspects of today's society using classical bedtime stories to show how irreverent some pursuits of political correctness are. The humor found in the book made it non-offensive and allowed the reader to enjoy this new take on classical "tiny people with wings" tales.