THE STORY HOUR (Child Horizons)

By Sarah Henderson Hay

Book Overview

Originally published by Doubleday (1963) and in 1982 by the University of Arkansas Press, Story Hour takes many well-known fairy tales -- Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood -- and turns them on end. In this collection of poems, Sara Henderson Hay asks us to feel compassion for "the murdered Giant"; to believe that the grandmother might even invite the wolf in and offer him "a warm bed, and a bone or two"; and to walk along dark streets with a young man who has escaped the hard life inside the shoe but not his mother's reach. Hay's deft and efficient voice makes these familiar stories at times funny, always ironic, and, as Miller Williams writes in the foreword to this new version, "even scarier than they were."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938626086
• ISBN13: 9780938626084
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Standard Educational Corp.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.