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Race in fairy tales
Pause Play Play Prev | Next I grew up in the 1970s, when the lens on fairy tales turned academic and feminist. It was a time when fairy tales were being examined and critiqued for remaining wedded to...
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Lil’ Red: An Interactive Story app review
What’s black and white and red all over? Lil’ Red: An Interactive Story (2013; iOS and Android), Brian Main’s savvy digital retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood.” This light version of the fairy tale...
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Hansel and Gretel app review
If you’re in the mood to be a little bit scared, a little bit charmed, and maybe a little bit hungry for sugary houses, the Hansel and Gretel app by Fusee (2015; iOS only) might just be for you. On...
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Toca Tailor: Fairy Tales app review
Toca Tailor: Fairy Tales (Toca Boca, 2012; iOS only) is a fairy-tale-themed companion to the original Toca Tailor app, in which you can “make” clothes by tailoring size, choosing fabrics, and adding...
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Review of Snow White
Snow White by Matt Phelan; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 216 pp. 9/16 978-0-7636-7233-1 $19.99 Phelan has visited the 1930s Dust Bowl in The Storm in the Barn...
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The Complete Fairytale Play Theater app review
Combine elements from Nosy Crow’s fairy-tale app series (The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and Goldilocks and Little Bear) to stage your own...
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Review of The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales
The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Shaun Tan; abridged and adapted from translations of Grimms’ fairy tales by Jack Zipes; sculptures and photos by the author Intermediate, Middle...
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Shaun Tan Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Shaun Tan’s latest book has an interesting history,...
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Ever just the same
Betsy likes this one. “Roger, didn’t you know that everything goes back to ‘Beauty and the Beast?'” That was Deborah Stevenson talking to me sotto voce in 1989 or so after listening to our boss Betsy...
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Review of Rapunzel
Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin; illus. by the author Primary Peachtree 32 pp. 10/17 978-1-68263-003-7 $16.95 Woollvin (Little Red, rev. 3/16) offers another wryly comic rewrite of a Grimms...
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