| #901092 in Books | 2013-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x7.75 x1.00l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 144 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Exquisite Macabre|By K. A. Laity|I'm a fairy tale addict, so this beautiful book is just the thing for me. If you also devour things like Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, you'll love it too. I know it's meant to be a YA book, but there's such deft hands at work here that the only thing that makes it feel like a book for young readers is that the tales are short. Despite thei|From School Library Journal|Gr 8 Up—Whether it's "Beauty and the Beast," "Little Red Riding Hood," or any of these other adapted tales, the bare plots should be familiar to most readers. But like any good story, it's the details that make them all work. Sc
Twisted Fairy Tales is a brand-new collection of very old tales--but tales with gothic twists of plot guaranteed to astound and terrify even the most fearless readers. These re-told stories include:
* Snow White * Rapunzel * Little Red Hood * The Cinder Wench * Beauty and the Beast * Pinocchio * The Goose Girl * The Pied Piper of Hamelin * and twelve more
Well-known tales get gruesome revisions--in many cases bringing them closer to the...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Twisted Fairy Tales | Maura McHugh. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
