Synopses & Reviews
This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is running a successful scam on Little Red's Grandma until Little Red catches him in the act. The Three Bears invade Goldy's house because their forest home is being stripped to build a super highway. A Prince refuses to marry any of the grumpy princesses who lost sleep because there were peas under their mattresses. A clever princess pays a dragon to lose a fight so she can marry the man she loves.
This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is running a successful scam on Little Red's Grandma until Little Red catches him in the act. The Three Bears invade Goldy's house because their forest home is being stripped to build a super highway. A Prince refuses to marry any of the grumpy princesses who lost sleep because there were peas under their mattresses. A clever princess pays a dragon to lose a fight so she can marry the man she loves.
Review
"Here is a new generation of fairy tales to make children laugh, not hide under the covers." --Stephen Mooser, author of Young Marion's Adventures in Sherwood Forrest
Review
"Recommended." --Publishers Weekly
Review
"The dialogue is cool, the farce is wild, and kids will appreciate how the damsels in distress make their own happy endings". --Booklist
Synopsis
This is a collection of 10 delightful fairy tales with new twists on old stories and themes, including a beautiful princess who is put to sleep for 100 years because she is so cranky.
About the Author
Bruce Lansky has edited a number of poetry anthologies (including Rolling in the Aisles, Kids Pick the Funniest Poems, If Kids Ruled the School, A Bad Case of the Giggles, Miles of Smiles, and No More Homework! No More Tests!), and 3 silly songbook anthologies. Lansky created the popular GigglePoetry.com website for children and the PoetryTeachers.com website for teachers. He also created the Girls to the Rescue series, the New Fangled Fairy Tales series, and the Can You Solve the Mysteries series.
Table of Contents
Little bad wolf and Red Riding Hood /Timothy Tocher --And so they did /V. McQuin --King Midas /Timothy Tocher --Jill and the beanstalk /Denise Vega --The prince and the pea /Bruce Lansky --The real story of Sleeping Beauty /Liya Lev Ortel --The obsolete dragon /Carole G. Vogel --The frog princess /Rita Schlachter --Rudy and the prince /Lisa Harkrader --Goldy Locks /Timothy Tocher.