Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales-but the villains themselves beg to differ. In Troll's-Eye View, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ('Jack and the Beanstalk'), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup...
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Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales-but the villains themselves beg to differ. In Troll's-Eye View, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ('Jack and the Beanstalk'), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Jane Yolen, and Nancy Farmer, makes sure that these old stories do new tricks!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142416730 (0142416738)
ASIN: 142416738
Publish date: August 5th 2010
Publisher: Firebird
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
This is a fantastic anthology that's based on fairytales told from the point of view of the villains. It's also great for both younger and older readers; I loved it, and got a lot out of it, although I'm older than the targeted audience. Then again, Ellen Datlow is a top-notch editor and garners...
I've been slightly p.oed even since Datlow and Windling stopped editiing thier adult collections and focused on YA collections. Now, I understand YA is hot (though most of it seems slightly silly), but still. Anyway, with this collection I think I understand why they did it or perhaps I figured ou...
I said somewhere recently that I had never given a multi-author collection of short stories anything more than three stars. Here, I will make that statement false. It's just that usually there is too much comme ci, comme ça in any given collection. But I hadn't read a Ellen Datlow/Terri Windling col...
As short story collections often are, this is a mixed bag. It's a great start on fractured fairy tales for the midgrade crowd, though.
Troll’s Eye View is a collection of stories revisiting well-known fairy tales–Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Molly and the Giants–often from the villain’s point of view. It’s a mixed bag of stories: some are slightly skewed re-tellings, some are realistic stories informed by the themes and stru...
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