Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast

By Jane Yolen

Book Overview

Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls."
In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at hear, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother's homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan's troops.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152164448
• ISBN13: 9780152164447
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Awesome

Short stories a great for teachers to read in down time or parents as bedtime stories. A few stories can be a little scary for some kids. Wonderful book, highly reccommend!

Amazing!

Defently one of the best books I've ever read. It contains 12 different stories that are happy, sad, and some were downright scary.

Something for everyone

Rather like a "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears" for a younger audience, this book is for anyone who enjoys a good fractured faerytale or stories from the fantasy realm. It has everything, from Yolen's continuation of Alice in Wonderland to the sad story of an Appalachian girl whose mother has returned to life as a vampire. While stories like "The Bridge's Complaint", a twist on the old Billy Goats Gruff story (told by an intellectual bridge) and "Lost Girls," a feminist version of Peter Pan, gave me a good laugh, stories like "Mama Gone," the vampire story, and "Bolundeers" were both sad and heartwarming. "Sea Dragon of Fife" was a tale of legendary proportions and "Wilding" added a bit of sci-fi to the bunch. You won't put the book down until you've read ALL of the stories--many times. And it's by Jane Yolen, it can't be BAD! Get it and be sure to read "Harlyn's Fairy" and "Winter's King," my personal favourites.

Great memorable fairy tales with a twist!

I read this book and found it impossible not to love. The stories may be odd, but none are boring. And the ones that have a twist to them are very impressive. This book keeps you reading. And I recommend this to any age.

SCREWY!

THESE STORY ARE FUNNY THE WAY THE AUTHOR HAS TWISTED THEM. THE ARE GOOD FOR A ACTIVE IMAGINATION!