Synopses & Reviews
Disney meets Lena Dunham in this illustrated humor book featuring your favorite fairy-tale characters dating and finding their way in 21st-century America
The Ugly Duckling still feels gross compared to everyone else, but now shes got Instagram, and theres this one filter that makes her look awesome. Cinderella swaps her glass slippers for Crocs. The Tortoise and the Hare Facebook stalk each other. Goldilocks goes gluten free. And Peter Pan finally has to grow up and get a job, or at least start paying rent.
Here are more than one hundred fairy tales, illustrated and re-imagined for today. Instead of fairy godmothers, theres Siri. And rather than big bad wolves, there are creepy dudes on OkCupid. In our brave new world of social networking, YouTube, and texting, fairy tales can once again lead us to happily ever after”and have us laughing all the way.
Review
“Entertaining . . . Touching . . . A cool, PG-13 revisiting of classic stories [that] feels a bit like tossing a Disney princess into the cast of HBOs
Girls.” —Kirkus ReviewsReview
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Disney meets Lena Dunham in this illustrated humor book featuring your favorite fairy-tale characters dating and finding their way in 21st-century America What happens when Peter Pan finally has to get a job? Or Rapunzel gets a buzz cut? When The Ugly Duckling discovers Instagram filters, can she give herself a makeover? What if Goldilocks went gluten-free? Or if Jack and Jill ran up their iPhone bill? Or Snow White had seven Facebook stalkers?
Here are more than one hundred fairy tales, illustrated and re-imagined for today. Instead of fairy godmothers, theres Siri. And rather than big bad wolves, there are creepy dudes on OkCupid. In our brave new world of social networking, YouTube, and texting, fairy tales can once again lead us to happily ever after”and have us laughing all the way.
About the Author
Tim Manley is a writer and illustrator and the creator of the blog
Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings.and#160;He has won theand#160;Moth StorySLAM, taught high school English at New York Cityand#8217;s School of the Future, and served as aand#160;mentor with the PEN American Centerand#8217;s Prison Writer Program.and#160;Born in 1985 on Long Island, he lives in Queens, New York.
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