Fairy tales and fables are fascinating, and authors are often tempted to put a different spin on them, or use them to enhance an otherwise dull plot (cough, cough, The Red Queen Dies, cough cough). Ron Koertge reimagines the fairy tales by telling the stories from other viewpoints, adding bits of...
Really uneven. The idea seems to have been to do a series of fairy tale retellings, in free verse. I like that idea, it's why I picked the book up. But the execution varies wildly. Some of the poems are essentially straight retellings, but from a different point of view. The Cinderella poem that ope...
I'm not going to do an official review of this at all, but here are my basic thoughts. As is typical with any collection of stories, some of these were good, others not so much. What some of them also were was REALLY strange, and not always in a good way. The Bluebeard, Bearskin, and Beauty and the ...
This is a truly original book-of-fairytales rendition. It provides narration for all of the famous (and some not so famous) fairytale characters from legend. They each take a turn telling their story, each example gruesome and completely new. Some of it is in verse, some in documentary-style explana...
I love fairy tales and I love papercuts, so I was hoping to love this. But I'm not such a fan of the Angela Carter tradition and that's definitely where this one lies. After a certain point, the stories started to seem predictable: the ending will be twisted, the good guys turn out bad, the tropes s...
My first read-through of this modern retelling of many well known fairytales left me a little cold. Okay, they're clever, but maybe a little too clever, too edgy, too precious. So, believe it or not, I decided to give it a second chance. What? I'm sure I've done that once or twice in my life.So the ...
All the disturbing parts of the fairy tales that Disney cut out Koertge picks up and crafts into these dark little poems. Unfortunately the hip updating of fairy tales thing has been kind of done to death.
This struck me as much more interesting and intelligent than those "twisted fairy tales" I had to hear about all through college. I chuckled, I rolled my eyes, but most importantly, I wanted to finish each poem.
Dark, sometimes gory retellings of classic Fairytales. That about sums up Lies, Knives, and Girls In Red Dresses by Ron Koertge, with illustrations by Andrea Dezso.The fairytales you hold near and dear to your heart are completely twisted and will open up your eyes to a darker side of storytelling....
Clever, entertaining updates of familiar fairy tales. Dark and frequently gruesome like the original tales upon which these are based. Great illustrations.
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