Leaping Beauty
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000776JME |
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| Number of Pages | : | 102 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leaping Beauty/Animal Fairytales Maria P Gates Brilliant! Word/picture associations, correlation to original stories,with little sarcastic asides scattered throughout. A good example of Gregory Maguire's skill and talent.. M. J. Schroeder said Sure funny. Everyone should read this book. For children, grandchildren, just to have fun.. Dorothy said Highly recommended. Love the twists Maguire adds to these old stories
All rights reserved. While kids will laugh out loud at the irrepressible youngest sibling in "The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus," some of the selections, including "Leaping Beauty," seem labored and uninspired. . From School Library Journal Grade 3-6–Eight well-known fairy tales are recast, with the aid of animal characters and outrageous puns (with some tongue-in-cheek witticisms thrown in), into such stories as "Little Red Robin Hood" and "Cinderelephant." In one of the most entertaining stories, "Rumplesnakeskin," a gorgeous and tough-talking sheep named Norma Jean changes her name to Beauty and ends up being forced to spin straw into gold to finance the king's latest failing movie venture. However, fans of Dav Pilkey and Jon Scieszka will appreciate the zany situations and the joyful fracturing of traditional tales.–Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public LibraryCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Re
Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy– tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes; and one very bad walrus.. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle–grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles