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leah
Unregistered User
(2/17/02 8:50:35 am)
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fairy tale setting
does any one know of any books that are like Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons? Where there are fairy tale eleiments but it is not a fairy tale retelling.
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(2/17/02 11:48:57 am)
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Some options
Are All the Giants Dead? by Mary Norton
Boots an the Seven Leaguers by Jane Yolen
Midsummer's Night Fairy Tale by Terri Windling and Wendy Froud
to start the long list.
Jane
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leah
Unregistered User
(5/10/02 10:56:18 am)
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thanks
does any one else know of any? another example is the adventures of princess nightshade and a small elderly dragon.
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(5/10/02 3:34:12 pm)
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fairy tale settings
How about -
Susan Fletcher's Dragon Chronicles - not as lighthearted as Wrede's Dragon series
The Moor Child by Eloise McGraw - a changeling tale
The Folk Keeper by Frannie Billingsley - a selchie tale
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Heidi Anne Heiner
Unregistered User
(5/11/02 12:15:34 pm)
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More books
Try:
Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Trilogy, including:
Dragon's Blood
Heart's Blood
A Sending of Dragons
Robin McKinley's Damar books, including:
The Hero and the Crown
The Blue Sword
Emily Rodda's Rowan books, including:
Rowan of Rin
Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books, including:
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonharper books, including:
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
Patricia McKillip, including The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Lloyd Alexander's Prydian books, including:
The Book of Three
The High King
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence, including
Silver on the Tree
The Grey King
Greenwitch
the Dark Is Rising
Over Sea, Under Stone
Actually, these are just classic and great fantasy books for all readers. There are plenty more, but these are the ones most requested at my library.
Heidi
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Helen
Registered User
(5/11/02 1:28:05 pm)
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Re: fairy tale setting
Also, you might like Monica Furlong's _Juniper_ and _Wise Child_, Anne Downer's _Spellkey _ trilogy, and Tamora Pierce's series of books set in the kingdom of Tortall.
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Camivette
Registered User
(5/23/02 9:16:51 pm)
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Re: fairy tale setting
Diana Wynne Jones, Eva Ibbotson, and Lloyd Alexander are good as well.
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(5/24/02 5:58:14 am)
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Re: fairy tale setting
Alan Garner's another good one, and sadly neglected these days. THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN, THE OWL SERVICE, ELIDOR...lots.
THE FACE IN THE FROST by John Bellairs is one of my favorite books of all time. Whatever it's actually about, it has the feel of a fairy tale.
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leah
Unregistered User
(7/4/02 11:46:37 am)
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any more
any one else have some suggestions. for any one else who is enterested try The ordinary princess, Hidden Magic by Vivian Vande Velde, and The Ordinary Princess
by M. M. Kaye. Thanks for the suggestions
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