Looking for suggestions for fairy tale books and fairy tale retellings
Looking for suggestions for fairy tale books and fairy tale retellings
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Looking for suggestions for fairy tale books and fairy tale retellings
Fairy Tales Retold by Francesa Lia Block, I love them.
Lunar Chronicles
I enjoyed The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert.
Guessing you’ll already have Grimm’s, Anderson’s, Pullman’s? There’s a French writer and can’t remember his name at the moment but wrote Cinderella. Have you seen these? There’s a big collection of them that have the original and then all the other similar versions from other cultures?
I only have Hans Christian Andersen
I haven’t saw that but It looks interesting
@Yves oh then definitely get Grimm’s, Neil Gaiman Stardust is brilliant as well, Pullman has rewritten a Grimm version which is good. Gaiman has a few that I’d count as fairytale genre. 1001 Arabian Nights as well – so many beautiful stories. I’m a bit of a fairytale collector – it’s my favourite genre. It’s 2.30am here and just finishing a book but tomorrow when I’m more conscious I can put a list together for you if you’d like ?
I want to have that since Cinderella is my favorite fairy tale since childhood
@Yves Charles Perrault was the original author of Cinderella and he has a whole collection of other stories he wrote in the 1600s so it’d be worth looking at his work – there’s lots of translations available.
Girls of Snow and Glass
Km Shea has a bunch that are really good and all exist in the same world but are separate stories.
I enjoyed Entwined by Heather Dixon. Snow and Rose by Emily W Martin has lovely illustrations.
I have Princess of Glass on my TBR pile.
Prepare yourself, I’ve got a bunch ?
Peter pan ?
Kate Forsyth books are great
Alice in Wonderland
Another peter pan
A mash-up
Haven’t gotten to this one yet.
Another on my tbr
This is manga, but it’s supposedly based off an Irish fairytale.
If you want, I could probably find a couple more in my collection. ?
Yes, sure!
YA, beauty and the best
Red riding hood
A collection of traditional Irish fairytales.
I assume you’ve probably already come across Dorothy Must Die, but just in case…
The Lunar Chronicles!! ???
@Jennifer I was coming to say this!
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I love fairy-tale retellings.
Beauty by Robin McKinley (B&tB)
Deerskin by Robin McKinley (Donkeyskin)
East by Edith Pattou (B&tB/East of the Sun, West of the Moon)
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (Rumplestiltskin)
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (Rapunzel)
Beauty by Sheri Tepper (Sleeping Beauty)
@Kat Robin McKinley’s
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast is wonderful! Beautifully written.
@Yuki it’s one of my very favorites. Like a comfort food but a book. I reread it and have been since I was in elementary school.
Similar to fairy tales but not re-tellings: Uprooted by Naomi Novik, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip, Chalice by Robin McKinley.
Also The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin has a fairy tale feel.
girls of snow and glass!
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I love books like these, I have some already but as u know if your a bookaholic I’m always looking for more.
Andrew Lang’s fairy books. Neil Gaiman tells a very fine fairytale.
Just Ella
A Touch of Gold
Hunted
The Lunar Chronicles
Ella Enchanted
A lot of books by Shannon Hale and Robin McKinley too!
I found out recently that The Nutcracker ballet was inspired by a story originally by E.T.A. Hoffmann and retold later by Alexandre Dumas (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5692018-nutcracker-and-mouse-king-and-the-tale-of-the-nutcracker
I still have no idea what it is about, I’ve seen the play with a jazz band, our friend wrote all the songs and was the voice over for it.
I’ve seen a few scenes from one of the filmed plays. The whole premise with the Nutcracker coming to life and taking the girl to the magical world.
I haven’t read the book yet, but based on the forward, that is the original story but with more detail and goings on.
I want to have that book
Fairy tale retellings are all over the place. Grimm’s classics are awesome of course. Ella Enchanted is clever and 100 times better than the movie. And not to self-promote (because I seriously only get 25 cents per sale) but there’s this one too…
Once Upon a Future Time https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943933022/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_b3.sCbZAAYMZY
@Deanna I already had a copy of Ella Enchanted (the book)
Sisters Grimm Sriesby Michael Buckley
Young reads: ‘Fablehaven’ ‘Sisters Grimm,’ or ‘Lunar Chronicles.’ Mercedes Lackey and Gregory McGuire write a lot of retellings.
Savage beauty by Casey L Bond
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue is very good.
Philipp Pullman’s reinterpretation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
The Lunar Chronicles
Unhinged series
Peas and Princesses by Aleese Hughes. It’s quick and fun, but definitely a little dark. I like that type of thing, though. I think her second book is supposed to come out soon, too. I read it through Kindle Unlimited. I think she also sells other editions on Amazon.