Tag: #fairytale

The Complete Fairy Tales — Charles Perrault

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.The Complete Fairy Tales, written by Charles Perrault.

Tales in Verse

Preface
The History of Griselda
Letter to M…., on sending him The History of Griselda
Three Silly Wishes
Donkey-Skin

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Stories or Tales of Bygone Times, with their Morals

To Mademoiselle
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
Little Red Riding-Hood
Bluebeard
Puss in Boots
The Fairies
Cinderella
Ricky the Tuft
Hop o’ my Thumb
Appendix A: Selected Tales related to Perrault’s Contes
Appendix B: Early Versions of the last part of Sleeping Beauty and of The Fairies
Explanatory Notes

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Charles’ Page

#fairytale #charlesperrault

What the Sea Wants — P. Djèlí Clark

By 5t4n5

What the Sea Wants, written by P Djèlí Clark.Available in Daily Science Fiction – Oct 2012.

This one fits in my Mermaids, Selkies, Sirens and Other Mythical Sea Folk collection.

Although it’s a very short short-story, it’s still a good modern fairy tale about one of those “Other Mythical Sea Folk”.

Beware the sea!

Next up in my Djèlí reading list is With a Golden Risha.

P. Djèlí Clark’s Page

#fantasy #pdjeliclark

Pan’s Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Pan's Labyrinth, written by Guillermo del Toro.

This is one super good, dark fantasy/fairy-tale.

Set in 1944 at the end of the Spanish Civil War, with Franco’s troops continuing their brutal repression of anyone and anything that stood in their way.   It gets rather violent, brutal and nasty, and caught in amongst all of this is our protagonist, Ofelia, a young girl who has grown up with the horrors of war all around her.

This is not a book for children, or for the faint of heart looking for a nice fantasy/fairy-tale read, but it’s certainly worth a read if you can handle a fair bit of brutality.

Guillermo’s Page Cornelia’s Page

#guillermodeltoro #corneliafunke

The Starlit Wood — Anthology

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The Starlit Wood -- Anthology

Standalones

In the Desert Like a Bone (Little Red Riding Hood) — Seanan McGuire – 2016
Underground (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) — Karin Tidbeck – 2016
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious (Hansel and Gretel) — Daryl Gregory – 2016
The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest (The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage) — Charlie Jane Anders – 2016
Familiaris (The Wolves) — Genevieve Valentine – 2016
Seasons of Glass and Iron (The Glass Mountain/The Black Bull of Norroway) — Amal El-Mohtar – 2016
Badgirl, The Deadman and The Wheel of Fortune (The Girl with No Hands) — Catherynne M. Valente – 2016
Penny for a Match, Mister? (The Little Match Girl) — Garth Nix – 2016
Some Wait (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) — Stephen Graham Jones – 2016
The Thousand Eyes (The Voice of Death) — Jeffrey Ford – 2016
Giants in the Sky ( Jack and the Beanstalk) — Max Gladstone – 2016
The Briar and the Rose (Sleeping Beauty) — Marjorie Liu – 2016
The Other Thea (The Shadow) — Theodora Goss – 2016
When i Lay Frozen (Thumbelina) — Margo Lanagan – 2016
Pearl (Dã Tràng and the Pearl) — Aliette de Bodard – 2016
The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle) — Sofia Samatar – 2016
Reflected (The Snow Queen) — Kat Howard – 2016
Spinning Silver (Rumpelstiltskin) — Naomi Novik – 2016

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#fairytale #fantasy #seananmcguire #aliettedebodard #naominovik

Good Neighbours — DeAnna Knippling

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to, Good Neighbours, written by DeAnna Knippling.

I really enjoyed this.   A nice captivating little short to fill an hour or so.

In East Smithville the fog is always coming and with it, the Fairies who whisk people away, not to be seen again for years.   This is the story of one such person returning — for a while at least.

I admit to being thoroughly disappointed that it ended, i really wanted it to keep going: away with the Fairies.

Well worth a read of your time and it would be really good if DeAnna came back to East Smithville some time and wrote a few more short stories about people returning.

DeAnna’s Page

#fantasy #fairytale #deannaknippling

Bones — Yasmine Galenorn

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Bones, written by Yasmine Galenorn.

Back to the old classic of don’t-go-where-the-grown-ups-tell-you-not-to-go-or-something-very-bad-will-happen kind of fairy tale.

I like that Yasmine tells this with one of those delightful grim dark endings to it.

Available in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse.

Yasmine’s page

#fantasy #fairytale #yasminegalenorn

The Queen of Frost and Darkness — Christine Pope

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.The Queen of Frost and Darkness, written by Christine Pope.

A gender role reversal of the old fairy tale standard of defenceless princess put under evil spell until perfect, heroic prince kisses her and they live happily ever after.   This time it’s the brave, adventurous girl rescuing the enspelled boy.

So yeah, it’s about time the girls get to have an adventure and do the rescuing and young readers get to realise that boys are just as fallible to the wiles of evil doers as girls have always been portrayed to be.

I think this one is good for all ages, and certainly a great way to begin further conversations with children about historical views of gender roles when this is compared to fairy tales from the patriarchy such as Sleeping Beauty etc..

Available in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse.

Christine’s page

#fantasy #fairytale #christinepope

Fae Horse — Anthea Sharp

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Fae Horse, written by Anthea Sharp.

This one is very much on the dark side of folk-lore/fairy-tale telling, beginning in a witch hunt.   Maybe not so suitable for very young children.

That said, its very good and will certainly keep you in its grip until the end.

Available on its own (click on picture) but also included in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse, and also in the collection, Tales of Feyland and Faerie.

Anthea’s page

#fantasy #fairytale #antheasharp