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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fantasy icon Jane Yolen (The Devil's Arithmetic, Briar Rose, Sister Emily's Lightship) is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement....
4) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From one of America's most celebrated writers comes an exquisite and heart-wrenching novel that no listener will forget. Jane Yolen takes the fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty, and tells it anew-set this time against the terrifying backdrop of the Holocaust. Briar Rose is easily Yolen's greatest accomplishment-blend of beautiful myth and dark history.
10) Firebird
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Russian folktale in which Prince Ivan encounters the magical Firebird who helps him defeat the evil Kostchei.
11) Tam Lin
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of an old Scottish ballad, a Scottish lass, on the Halloween after her sixteenth birthday, reclaims her family home which has been held for years by the fairies and at the same time effects the release of Tam Lin, a human held captive by the Queen of the Fey.
12) King Long Shanks
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although he hates their poor poetry, a frog king agrees to let two flattering scoundrels create an outfit for him that will show off his fine, long, strong legs and test the loyalty of his subjects.
15) Wizard's hall
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself.
19) The flying witch
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Relates how a turnip farmer's daughter outwits the fearsome witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Accident-prone, thirteen-year-old Gorse, the youngest fairy in her family, falls into a trap while on her way to the palace to bless the newborn princess, Talia, but arrives in time to give a gift which, although seemingly horrific, may prove to be a real blessing in this take-off on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty.
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