The Wild Swans
10 best books like The Wild Swans (Peg Kerr): Daughters of a Coral Dawn, The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Thomas the Rhymer, Godmother Night, Owl in Love, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Black Thorn, White Rose, Fitcher's Brides, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, The Nightingale
Daughters of a Coral Dawn
| Author | Katherine V. Forrest |
| ISBN | 1555836623 |
Late in the 22nd century, the settling of a new world falls on the strong shoulders of young Megan. The perfect leader, she undertakes to guide her sisters to a new planet, free from the shackles of the brutal Earth regime. Negotiating politics in a society of women is second only to securing their safety....
| Author | Jeanne Marie Beaumont |
| ISBN | 1586540270 |
Writers and readers have long been inspired by the haunting wisdom and sheer imaginative power to be found in the fairy tales of the immortal Brothers Grimm. The editors have collected more than a hundred poems inspired by Grimm tales and written by our finest living poets. A brilliant and informative...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553586971 |
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
| Author | Rachel Pollack |
| ISBN | 0349108366 |
Almost a set of short stories, this novel breaks into discrete episodes, centered on identity, love, and death. Jaqe has no identity until she meets Laurie, introduced and named by Mother Night; in that moment, she knows herself, and that she loves Laurie. But once Mother Night has become part of their...
| Author | Patrice Kindl |
| ISBN | 0618439102 |
I am in love with Mr. Lindstrom, my science teacher. I found out where he lives and every night I perch on a tree branch outside his bedroom window and watch him sleep. He sleeps in his underwear: Fruit of the Loom, size 34.
Owl Tycho, the shape-shifting daughter of "simple witches", is a high school student...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0312862210 |
I'm a big fan of Terri Windling, and make an effort to seek out her anthologies. Thus, I got this one. I'd heard rave reviews of it - people saying "This is the one that made a difference in my life!"
I was a bit quizzical about that, because for me, that was 'Bordertown.' And for me, it remains Bordertown,...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0809557754 |
The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic -- with 18 wondrous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at grandma's knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelansky's delightful tale of Death's disobedient godson...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0765301954 |
The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth
1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415902630 |
This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural...
| Author | Kara Dalkey |
| ISBN | 0441574467 |
In this deft and enchanting retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Kara Dalkey has mixed history and legend, weaving the Andersen fable into a fascinating novel about court life in ancient Japan -- a life of pageantry and poetry, of great beauty and casual cruelty, of life and courtly...
| Author | Greer Gilman |
| ISBN | 0451450949 |
Ariane came to visit Sylvie at midwinter, hoping to rekindle the old magic of their girlhood game: the Nine Worlds, a fantastical universe founded in a handful of marbles and a tarot of cards, whose myths and kingdoms the two friends had chronicled between them. But when Sylvie disappeared in a moonlit...
| Author | Eileen Kernaghan |
| ISBN | 1894345142 |
*Winner 2001 Aurora Award for Long Form (English)
*Chosen for 2001 "Our Choice" Canadian Children's Centre literature guide
In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and the Kalevala coexist with the polite Victorian society...
| Author | Haydn Middleton |
| ISBN | 0312288581 |
In September 1863, Jacob Grimm travels through rural western Germany with his devoted niece, Auguste, who longs to learn at last the truth about her family. They are accompanied by Kummel, their new and enigmatic manservant. As relations between the three reach a crisis point, vivid flashbacks tell...
| Author | Alexander C. Irvine |
| ISBN | 0765340984 |
The great fire of 1835 burned most of New York City’s wooden downtown and, like many others, Archie Prescott thinks he’s lost all that’s dear to him. His home is a smoldering ruin and his wife is dead--and next to her body is a child’s corpse he assumes was his daughter. It seems as though it’s...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0380757958 |
Catherine Chandler is beautiful, young and rich. But one night, as she comes home after a party, Cathy is kidnapped and disfigured with knives, and when she wakes up she finds herself in another world. It is the world of Vincent, the universe of Galleries, a labyrinth of conduits under the New York metropolitan...
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 1573660965 |
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy stories to recount the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through time and space, uniting Ketzia Gold's early...
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1616960140 |
An ages-old family secret breaches the boundaries between reality and magic in this fresh retelling of a classic fairy tale. When Berkeley student Will Taylor is introduced to the mysterious Feierabend sisters, he quickly falls for enigmatic Livvy, a chemistry major and accomplished chef. But...
