More Than True

More Than True

Author: Robert Bly

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1250158206

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The National Book Award–winning poet examines how the enduring narratives of fairy tales capture the essence of human nature. Fairy tales have remarkable power to touch the human spirit—and they are uniquely capable of retaining that power through time and across borders. Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has spent decades investigating the origins and meanings of these deceptively simple stories. In More Than True, Bly looks at six tales that have long captivated him, from “The Six Swans” to “The Frog Prince.” Drawing on his own creative vision, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard and Yeats to Freud and Jung, Bly brings new meaning and illumination to these timeless tales. Along with illustrations of each story, the book features some of Bly’s unpublished poetry, which peppers his lyric prose and offers a look inside the mind of an American master of letters in the twilight of his singular career.


The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Author: Alison Lurie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9780192803832

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This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.


Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Author: Rachel Isadora

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 039925028X

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Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora gives readers a stunning new interpretation of this classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, setting the infamous witch's cottage deep in a lush African forest. Hansel and Gretel's plight feels all the more threatening as they're plunged into the thick, dark jungle of Isadora's rich collages.


Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Author: Karrie Fransman

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0571360203

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Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside. People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change.. They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.


Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780758700698

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A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.


Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls

Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls

Author: Usborne Publishing, Limited

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781474966429

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Here are eight forgotten fairy tales, with heroines who are not quiet and passive, but adventurous, intelligent and daring. Stories include a sleeping prince rescued by a princess, sisters who fight a goblin to rescue a bear, and a young girl who outwits a giant to save her family. A collection of feminist fairytales, forgotten over history, for the modern reader. Perfect for fans of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Jessie Burton's The Restless Girls and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter. Featuring gorgeous illustrations in a beautiful hardback edition, this is a perfect Christmas gift.


Notes from an Alien

Notes from an Alien

Author: Sena Quaren

Publisher: Fastpencil Incorporated

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9781607468226

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Told from the perspective of Sena Quaren, a woman from another star system, this is a story about unifying three very different worlds to create one lasting peace.


The Random House Book of Fairy Tales

The Random House Book of Fairy Tales

Author:

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1985-08-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0394856937

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A lush treasury of 19 fairy tales that generations of children have grown up on, lushly illustrated by Diane Goode.