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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(10/26/01 8:48:24 am)
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Modern Interpretations
In case anyone has missed these of late, here are some books with fairy tale themes published fairly recently. I know Gail shows particular interest in these titles.
"After Hamelin" by Bill Richardson--Pied Piper of Hamelin
"Straw Into Gold" by Gary D. Schmidt--Rumpelstiltkskin
"Angelfish" by Lawrence Yep--Beauty and the Beast
And a new fractured fairy tale version of The Three Little Pigs is out in a picture book--"Wait! No Paint!" by Bruce Whatley
Of late, I have particularly enjoyed Lauren Child's picture book "Beware of the Storybook Wolves"
Heidi
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tlchang37
Registered User
(10/26/01 9:11:40 am)
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Re: Modern Interpretations
I recently read - and thought was kind of fun - "The Rumplestiltskin Problem" by Vivian Vande Velde. 6 different takes on the Rumplestiltskin story that helped it to 'make more sense' from Velde's tongue-in-cheek point of view. Cute little book.
Tara
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(10/26/01 12:08:32 pm)
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Re: Modern Interpretations
Hey all -
The Three Little Pigs is popular this year it seems - or was popular a bit back when everyone was writing their manuscripts. Barry Moser has put out a Three Little Pigs retelling, as has David Weisner. Wiesner's sounds like a fractured tale that's pretty whimsical.
Also Jeanne and Williams Steig have done a book of Greek and Roman retellings and the book's causing a stir. A Gift from Zeus: Sixteen Favorite Myths has been marketed as a children's/YA book but the full frontal nudity and the bawdiness have already offended some. According to the Horn Book review, Jeanne Steig didn't credit sources and mixed Greek and Roman names within the tales, but her writing is lively and evocative. The reviewer gave the book a starred review.
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Heidi
Unregistered User
(10/26/01 2:44:35 pm)
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Wiesner's Three Pigs
I love this one! I wonder what it's chances are for a Caldecott actually. We'll know in a few months.
Heidi
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(10/27/01 8:34:25 pm)
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Weisner
Weisner's book is really a bizarrely wonderful deconstruction of the fairy tale, even as it tells it, not so much fractured, as wholly de and then re-constructed.
Jane
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Gail
Unregistered User
(10/29/01 8:05:13 am)
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thanks
Thanks for the heads-up Heidi. I do have several of your suggestions but not all of them so thank you again. As for Weisner's 3 pigs --- totally marvelous. I have been using it in my young adult literature class at the university to demonstrate the way books and reading works! Gail
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Terri
Registered User
(10/29/01 8:12:13 am)
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Re: thanks
Gail, I'm looking forward to seeing the new edition. Will your publisher send us a review copy for Year's Best Fantasy & Horror?
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Kerrie
Registered User
(10/29/01 12:42:00 pm)
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Re: Modern Interpretations
These all sound wonderful!
Heidi, did you ever get a copy of *The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy*? If so, how was it? If not, I'll see if they have it at our book sale next week.
Forest frosts,
Kerrie
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Gail
Unregistered User
(10/29/01 2:48:24 pm)
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review copy
Yes, and I'll send them a mention of this discussion so they realize how important it is for them to do so. Thanks Terri, Gail
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Kate
Unregistered User
(10/29/01 3:09:17 pm)
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would it be
Would it be rude to shamelessly plug my novel, recently published, here? Probably. Okay, I won't. But if anyone wants to know about it, please contact me . . . !
Kate
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(10/29/01 4:02:48 pm)
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plug
Plug away, Kate--the rest of us are shameless about doing it! <G>
Jane
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Helen
Registered User
(10/29/01 4:33:12 pm)
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Not if I beat you to it ...
Dear Kate:
I'd actually intended to start a thread on this topic, but - this being midterm week - haven't had the chance. I found _The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold_ in my local bookstore, and am devouring it as we speak (type?). It's absolutely wonderful. Bravo!
Helen
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Kate
Unregistered User
(10/29/01 5:00:02 pm)
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Thanks!
Helen and Jane--thank you so much for the support! And I'm so glad you could find the book, Helen. That's terrific, and I thank you for reading it. (Thank goodness it isn't expensive, being paperback, or I'd feel terribly guilty you bought it--though I am of course pleased your bookstore had it!)
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Kerrie
Registered User
(10/29/01 8:00:45 pm)
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Promotional materials?
Kate, do you have any postcards or other promotional material I
can pass around my local indie bookstores? (Or post on my BB until
I can find it) Amazon lists it as back ordered. But it's on my wish
list!
[If anyone else has postcards and such, I'd gladly pass them around! I just received a bunch for Terri and Wendy's new book, The Winter Child (which I must say, I love, Terri!) to pass around at work (cube contest- fairy theme) and bookstores. Let me know!]
Forest frosts,
Kerrie
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Terri
Registered User
(10/30/01 5:39:42 am)
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Re: Promotional materials?
Kate's book is indeed wonderful, and HIGHLY recommended to everyone here.
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Terri
Registered User
(11/13/01 7:08:48 am)
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new books
Has anyone here read Once Upon a Winter's Night by Dennis L. McKiernan? I understand that the novel is based on East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Also, I just received this extremely disappointing news from Amazon.com:
We are sorry to report that the release of the following
item has been cancelled:
Elizabeth Wanning Harries "Twice upon a Time : Women
Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale"
Though we had expected to be able to send this item to you, we've
since found that it will not be released after all. Please accept
our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience we have caused you.
...Anyone here know what's up with that? Dang, I was so looking forward to it.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(11/13/01 11:13:55 am)
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Re: new books
Terri,
Did you order the paperback version? I ordered the hardcover and haven't received the book or a cancellation notification yet. Amazon is listing two used editions in hardcover as available for sale--one from Powell's books.
Either way, it may explain why I never received a response to the e-mail I sent to Harries asking about the book.
I really hope the book isn't cancelled altogether. I was looking forward to it myself.
Heidi
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(11/13/01 11:21:40 am)
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And dang, too
I didn't know about "Once Upon a Winter's Night" either. The cover of the book certainly looks like the classic illustrations of the heroine riding a white bear for "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."
Just when I think I am keeping up, I learn I'm not.
Anyone else sneaking some new ones out? : )
Sigh............
Heidi
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erzebet
Unregistered User
(11/13/01 11:41:20 am)
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no dangs yet
I ordered a copy from Powell's through Amazon of 'Twice Upon a Time', but haven't got it yet. I hope it comes soon.
Is it possible to keep up? There is so much out there, and still coming. I'll have something out in May, self-published by my press. I can send you a copy if you like so you don't feel that you are missing anything. <grin>
Erz
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Kate
Unregistered User
(11/13/01 11:54:56 am)
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late
Kerrie--
You kindly asked some time ago if I had any promotional materials for the novel, but I don't, really, to tell you the truth. But there are these things:
A solid review in The Village Voice Literary Supplement:
www.villagevoice.com/vls/...lamy.shtml
The website of the publisher:
fc2.org
It's best to order the book through another source than the publisher, for reasons mysterious to me having to do with the way copies sold are counted. You can order it directly from Northwestern University Press, a good method, or off of Powells.com or Amazon.com or through a local bookstore.
Thanks for asking, and sorry for the delay in posting this stuff. I suppose I just keep hoping there will be something MORE--you know, more wonderful!--to post about it . . .! (Reviews are forthcoming here and there, but nothing I can post yet, all as-yet unpublished.)
Kate
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Gail
Unregistered User
(11/13/01 2:04:28 pm)
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Twice upon a time
Terri and Heidi, I have a copy of the hard copy sitting here in front of me. I ordered through my regular bookstore up here in Canada and they had no trouble bringing it in for me -- possiblity from the publisher itself. Gail
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