Could I get suggestions for any and all fairytale retelling’s please?
Could I get suggestions for any and all fairytale retelling’s please?
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Could I get suggestions for any and all fairytale retelling’s please?
Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations.
Also, it’s a film not a book, but Billy Elliot is a re-telling of “The Ugly Duckling.”
Wicked series by Gregory Maguire is good even if it’s not based on a fairytale
Naomi Novik has done a few of these, Spinning Silver and Uprooted.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/286510/the-true-story-of-hansel-and-gretel-by-louise-murphy/9780142003077/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18943.Confessions_of_an_Ugly_Stepsister?ac=1&from_search=true
Chris colfer series. YA but entertaining.
Not a retelling but still a fairytale….The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert was really good.
@Kristy that was sooooo good. I couldn’t put it down.
@Trina I have never read any fairytale type stories and I loved it. Now I’m looking for more to read.
@Kristy try Holly Black. She has quite a few amazing titles.
@Trina Thank you! My library has a lot of her books.
Mermaid and The Fairest of All by Carolyn Turgeon are both amazing!
Lunar Chronicles
I second this! Loved these books!
Christina Henry has done some really good ones 🙂
Yes! I second this!
Heartless!! ??
Well, there’s a series that I’m reading. It is called “An Unfortunate Fairytale”. I have another, it’s the ” Neverwood Chronicles”. It is a retelling of Peter Pan. Both series are written by Chanda Hanh.
Wicked
I just finished ‘To Kill a Kingdom’ on audio book and it was absolutely a grown up version of the little mermaid. It’s technically a YA novel but I think that is just because there is no sex or bad language.
If you read YA – The Lunar Chronicles, that is 4 books. Also Flame in the Mist based off Mulan. I’m not sure if that is a fairytale or just a Disney movie.
Also A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is inspired by Beauty and the Beast.
Following
the book of lost things by john connelly is inspired heavily by grimms fairytales, and chris colfer’s land of stories
@Nicole I just ordered Alice and The Red Queen from this author.
I haven’t read her others but this one was good.
One of my favorite books. Fairytale is Koschei the Deathless.
The same author has a shorter book, Six Gun Snow White, which is Snow White in the old west. It’s sparse but fun.
Anything by Disney is a re-telling
You might like The Hazel Wood
Heartless
Naomi Novik Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Robin McKinley Beauty, Spindle’s End and Deerskin. Mercedes Lackey has a series of retold fairy tales…first one is The Fire Rose.
Dorothy Must Die was really good. I only read the first one though. I had a hit or miss with the Luna Chronicles. I didn’t like Cinder. I loved scarlet. I didn’t like the other books. Fairest was good.
Yes. Dorothy must die was good.
Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7826101-the-healer-s-apprentice
This author has a whole series
Also, Liz braswell and Serena Valentine/Valentino (can’t remember exactly) they do some as well that I’ve heard are great 🙂
Robin McKinley writes good ones.
Stinky Cheese Man!
Cameron Jace is an odd twist. I love the versions that make them more than ones we grew up with
The Lunar Chronicles
A Touch of Gold
Hunted
Most books by Robin McKinley and Shannon Hale.
If you like graphic novels, the Grimm Fairy Tales are amazing! They have some interesting twists…and can be quite dark
Any of the Once Upon A Time is Timeless Collection
http://www.simonandschuster.com/series/Once-upon-a-Time
Not really a fairy tale, but The Child Thief by Brom is an interesting retelling of Peter Pan
All of the Disney movies are retellings.
Katy Regnery
Christina Henry and Gregory Maguire spring to mind.
But one of my favorites is a short story by Neil Gaiman titled Snow, Glass, Apples. Your can find it in the book Smoke and Mirrors.
Following
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
” The Sage With A Secret” . A fiction story set up in India with great values for life and fun
Politically Correct Fairytales
Ellen Datlow and Terri Wilding have a lot of collections of short stories that are based on faerie tales: Snow White, Blood Red, Silver Birch, Blood Moon, Black Heart, Ivory Bones, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, etc.
@Nancy Snow White, Blood Red is good.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales,
The real Mother Goose???
After ever after, Wendy darling series both very good and more YA than others
Most of Greg macguire’s work. Confessions of an ugly stepsister was exceptionally good
The brothers Grimm household stories