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Fractured Fairy TalesRSS

Fairy or other folk tales that have been modified in such a way as to make us laugh at an unexpected characterization, plot development or contrary point of view. It’s a story that changes the characters, setting, points of view, or plots of fairy tales we know.
Beauty Trilogy

By A.N. Roquelaure

The Prince awakens Sleeping Beauty and brings her to his castle, where she has a series of erotic adventures.

Book of Lost Things

By John Connolly
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

"Connolly's fairy tale for adults chronicles the adventures of David, a 12-year-old boy growing up in WWII England… Everything changes when David stumbles through a magical gateway and into a realm of familiar, yet decidedly different, representations of classic fairy tales (From Publishers Weekly)."

Boy, Snow, Bird

By Helen Oyeyemi

A reimagining of the Snow White story recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

Briar Rose

By Jane Yolen

A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar Rose living in forests patrolled by the German army during World War II in a dark tale of the Holocaust.

Charmed Wife

By Olga Grushin
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Thirteen years after marrying Prince Charming and having two children, a dissatisfied Cinderella sneaks out to obtain the services of a witch known to provide love potions to disgruntled housewives, but instead of rekindled romance, she wants her husband dead.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

By Gregory Maguire

A retelling of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, told from the point of view of one of the ugly stepsisters, turns the entire legend around in a thoughtful look at what it means to be beautiful.

Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

By A.S. Byatt

The title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine - a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling - and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar.

Fables

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables

Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White.

Fairy Godmother

By Mercedes Lackey

In the mystical realm of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, the newest Fairy Godmother is introduced.

Firebird

By Mercedes Lackey
Series Fairy Tale

A young nobleman glimpses the legendary Firebird as it steals cherries from his father's orchards, and he journeys through a fantastical version of Old Russia to find the Firebird and fall in love.

Into the Woods

By Stephen Sondheim

A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless.

Lion Among Men

By Gregory Maguire
Series Wicked Years

As civil war looms in Oz, Brrr, once a lion cub rescued by Elphaba, now a spy for the emperor, attempts to get vital information out of the dying oracle Yackle, only to learn important truths about his own mysterious past.

Matchless

By Gregory Maguire

Entwines the classic fairy tale of the little match girl with a story of Frederik, whose mother is seamstress to the queen and who spends many evenings crafting a village in the attic of their small, cold home.

Mirror Mirror

By Gregory Maguire

A retelling of "Snow White" set in Renaissance Italy draws a link between the original fairy tale and the Borgia family's infamous practice of poisoning its enemies.

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time

By James Finn Garner

Another enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness.

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

By James Finn Garner

In a collection guaranteed to provoke both laughter and thought, 14 timeless fairy tales are revisited and reworked to become relevant fables for more modern times. These hilarious adaptations satirize and sanitize the sexist, racist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist, and phallocentrist biases of classic bedtime stories.

Son of a Witch

By Gregory Maguire
Series Wicked Years

A sequel to Wicked returns readers to the land of Oz, where adolescent Liir is discovered ten years after the melting of the witch Elphaba, attended by the mysterious foundling Candle, and called upon to locate his half-sister, Nor.

True Story of Hansel and Gretel

By Louise Murphy
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, July 23, 2012.  7 PM.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman called a witch by local villagers, who is determined to save them despite the arrival of a German officer.

Ugly Duchess

By Eloisa James
Series Fairy Tales
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When she discovers that her husband James, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, married her only for her dowry, Theodora Saxby, known throughout the ton as The Ugly Duchess, is devastated until James launches an amorous compaign to prove that he loves the duckling who blossomed into a swan.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

By Gregory Maguire
Series Wicked Years

Set in Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, strives to avenge her sister's death.

Wild Swan: And Other Tales

By Michael Cunningham
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Presents four modern fairy tales in which elements from traditional stories are interwoven with the experiences of people at times of profound revelation.