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Tag Archives: fairy tales
Book Review: Four titles by folklorist Dr. Jeana Jorgensen
Dr. Jeana Jorgensen has been writing about folklore, fairy tales, and sex for ten years. Often these topics intersect in her work. Recently she has assembled that decade’s worth of academic papers and blog posts about this material and released … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, folklore, gender and sexuality issues, sex education
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Various authors and editors: An omnibus review of British Folk Tales
Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher’s Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (University of Chicago Press, 1992) Katherine Briggs’s Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts; British Folktales; and Folktales of England (Pantheon, 1979), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), … Continue reading
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Philip Saville’s Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Andrea S. Garrett wrote this review. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale is a made for cable production specifically created for the Hallmark Channel. I can think of very few good things to say about this movie. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, nonfiction
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Robin McKinley’s Sunshine
Robin McKinley is well known for her wonderful re-tellings of fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast and Rose Daughter), “Donkeyskin” (Deerskin) and “Sleeping Beauty” (Spindle’s End), as … Continue reading
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Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Liz Milner wrote this review. A.I. combines a bittersweet fairy tale (in the style of Hans Christian Anderson, not the Brothers Grimm) with an SF story set in a high-tech America of the future. The story also combines the dark, … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Vol. 8: Wolves
This eighth installment of Bill Willingham’s long-running series of fairy tale characters alive and well in our world (and at war with a fierce Adversary) finds Mowgli of Jungle Book fame still hunting down the Big Bad Wolf on behalf … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Seventy-Five
Break out the champagne! Fables has reached issue number 75! I don’t recall us ever reviewing a single issue of an ongoing series, nor do our master review indexes — as maintained by our Library staff — show that we … Continue reading
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Seanan McGuire’s Indexing series: Indexing and Indexing: Reflections
I’m re-listening right now to one of those things that Seanan McGuire does so ever well: she takes a familiar story and make it fresh. (Next on my re-listen list is her Sparrow Hill Road series of Sparrow Hill Road and The … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fairy tales
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Jordan Mechner and A. B. Sina’s Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia presents us with another of the increasing number of spin-offs from gaming. It’s an intriguing story, sometimes filled with pathos, sometimes hair-raising, and always ambiguous. (And in case you were wondering, the plot of the graphic novel … Continue reading
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Jane Yolen, Heidi E.Y. Stemple, and Philippe Béha’s Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters
Liz Milner penned this review. When I think of the books I loved as child, I get hungry. There was Pooh lapping up honey and cream teas, Mary Poppins handing out magical gingerbread while Frodo chowed down on mushrooms and lembas. … Continue reading
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