Grimm's Grimmest
10 best books like Grimm's Grimmest (Jacob Grimm): Fairy tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men, A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen, Rapunzel, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, Old Indian Legends, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Best-Loved Folktales of the World, Yiddish Folktales, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Cinderella
Fairy tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
| Author | Peter Cashorali |
| ISBN | 0062513095 |
Queer retellings of common, and not-so-common, fairytales. These didn’t really work for me. They make use of a lot of gay clichés—hairdressers, leathermen, etc.—and most seemed to be trying too hard: “SEE WHAT I’M DOING HERE? NUDGE NUDGE.” The whole collection seems dated, which,...
A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0880299436 |
I thought I knew some of these stories, but even some of those that were familiar in name had a different outcome than what I was expecting. Apparently when these were written parents had no qualms about scaring the heck out of their children or in dashing hopes and dreams. Body parts being lopped off, homicide,...
| Author | Barbara Rogasky |
| ISBN | 0823404544 |
Okay, so I really liked how this retold the semi-original tale. But unfortunately, Rapunzel as a story kind of creeps me out and I don't think Rogasky did much retelling as just editing the original. I didn't care more about characters. That's what I really look for in these sorts of books. HOWEVER, the...
| Author | Ethel Johnston Phelps |
| ISBN | 0805006796 |
The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, courageous and smart. This type of heroine is not easily...
| Author | Zitkála-Šá |
| ISBN | 0803299036 |
Early in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Ša published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her writing talent, developed during her education back east, was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691114692 |
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing...
| Author | Joanna Cole |
| ISBN | 0385189494 |
A great compendium of stories with the common hidden theme which you can find if you read them with your heart.
Some favorites:
Maid Lena: This story reveals that the source of our lack of energy and courage is the result of something being “dead at our center,” and the necessity...
| Author | Beatrice Silverman Weinreich |
Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life,...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0439561450 |
In her most charming book yet, three-time New York Times Best Illustrator Barbara McClintock has created the Cinderella that every little girl will want to savor -- over and over again.
Poor Cinderella, who is relegated to a dingy garret room by her duplicitous stepmother and beleaguered...
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0808501747 |
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689853173 |
From the shadows
of the pool,
Black as midnight,
thick as gruel...
Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is - how else can you explain the frightening things that have been taking place over the past several months?
Now Lynn's mom is planning to move her writing studio...
This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. An accessible section of critical...
| Author | Charlotte Huck |
| ISBN | 0688131077 |
Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on...
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 0760703795 |
From legends retold around the peat fire to modern stories of psychological terror, the Irish have always had a fascination with fear. Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, this book includes 24 powerful Irish tales with more than enough material to set pulses racing: satanic figures, ghosts,...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0140306412 |
Çok güzel bir öykü kitabıydı.
İçerisindeki hikayeler birbirinden değişikti ve her hikayenin sonunda mutlaka çıkarılması gereken bir ders içeriyordu.
İleride -uzun uzun yıllar sonra- çocuğum olursa ve 9-12 yaş arasındayken bu kitabı -tabii o zaman elimde bir...
A young girl triumphs over the Queen of Faeries to reclaim her ancestral home and free her true love in this haunting retelling of an old Scottish ballad. “Mikolaycak’s illustrations...attract attention yet do not overpower the story, making the book one that could be easily used as a picture story...
| Author | Mahasweta Devi |
| ISBN | 0415904633 |
Imaginary Maps
presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these stories explore troubling motifs in contemporary...
| Author | Gael Baudino |
| ISBN | 0451452305 |
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