This morning's guest is Jayme from Horribly Bookish. Jayme has an awesome post prepared for us today, one that brings back fond memories of my childhood and adds a lot of fun picture books to my need to read fairy tale pile.
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I spent the better part of my college years working at a book lover’s dream job... I was a circulation clerk at my local library.
I swooned over new arrivals, created book lists I will never be able to finish, talked shop with other bookies and discovered a genre that I had completely missed out on as a child.
The Fractured Fairytale.
I had read fairytales, of course. But they were your normal, run-of-the-mill fairytales. Most were adapted from the Grimm Brothers or Hans Christian Andersen for the young reader. But at the library I discovered a slew of stories, made up of familiar characters or setting but just not quite right;)
Rapunzel, A Groovy Tale by Lynn and David Roberts
In which our heroine lives in the sixties and is swept off her feet by the grooviest guy of all.
Sleeping Bobby by Mary Pope Osborne and Will Osborne
After waiting years to have child, the king and queen are finally blessed with a son which they regally named Bob. But when a wicked wise woman places a curse on him, its up to a princess to save the day.
Prince Cinders by Babette Cole
Prince Cinders isn’t hairy and big like his prince brothers so they make him clean and cook for them. On the eve of the Rock ‘n Royal Bash, however, a fairy godmother turns him a big and hairy... gorilla! How is he going to find his happy ending?
Grandma Chickenlegs by Geraldine MCCaughrean
A take on the stories of Baba Yaga and Cinderella, a young girl named Tatia is made to clean and cook all day long by her evil stepmother. When a needle is need for sewing, Tatia’s stepmother sends her into the clutches of Grandma Chickenlegs. She must find a way out or become Grandma Chickenlegs’s next meal.
Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter by Diane Stanley
Tired of the king’s demands, the miller’s daughter ran off with Rumpelstiltskin and lived happily ever after. They had one child who found herself in the same predicament her mother had. But the clever girl comes up with a plan to keep her head and help the kingdom. Will the king ever learn?
Lovely fairy tales turned into silly, topsy turvy stories. If you get a chance pick up a few of these great books. They're fun and crazy and remind me of a time when life was a lot simpler:)