Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today’s book is a little bit different from past ones because Enchanted is a mash-up of several different fairy tales. It has references to “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Red Shoes,” and more. But the two tales it draws on the most are “The Frog Prince” and “Cinderella,” so I’ll be… Continue reading Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! It’s been far too long. I need to get better about posting these regularly. Today we’re looking at the first “Beauty and the Beast” retelling of this feature. Juliet Marillier is an author I just discovered this year, and she is amazing. The other two retellings I read by her… Continue reading Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! It’s been a while! My work schedule was really hectic all last month. Things have slowed down now, which hopefully means I’ll get back to consistently posting these! Ash has been on my TBR for ages, and I’m so glad I got to pick it up. A special thanks… Continue reading Ash by Malinda Lo
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today we’re going to take a look at the first “Snow White” retelling of this feature. “Snow White” was one of my favorite fairy tales as a young kid. Apparently I used to watch the Disney movie several times per day, and the illustrations for it in my childhood fairy… Continue reading Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! It’s been a very long time! Remember when I planned to post this in September? Yeah, sorry about that. Academia has essentially taken over my life. But today we are finally taking a look at the second “Snow White and Rose Red” retelling of this feature. I have since… Continue reading Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today we’re looking at the conclusion to the Princesses of Westfalin series. Even though this book came out in 2012, I didn’t know it existed until this year. This is the first novel-length retelling I’ve read of “Little Red Riding Hood.” The only others I’ve read are two short stories by Angela… Continue reading Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today we’re looking at a retelling of “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” which was a runner-up in July’s poll. While we have looked at a “Beauty and the Beast” retelling and the two tales are closely linked, this is the first actual “East of the Sun and West… Continue reading Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Today, by popular vote, we’re looking at the feature’s first retelling of “Rapunzel.” Sorry it’s so much later than I thought! As I said in my previous post, there was an issue with the library. Ultimately I just bought the ebook because it seemed that the library copy was never… Continue reading Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Princess of Glass is another book I originally read in high school and have reread a few times since. And I loved the story of “Cinderella” as a kid, so taking another look at this book was lots of fun. This is the second book in The Princesses of Westfalin trilogy. On… Continue reading Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George
Since “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is my favorite fairy tale, it’s fitting that I kick off Fairy Tale Friday with a retelling of it! I originally read Princess of the Midnight Ball when I was in high school, and it was actually the first retelling of the tale I ever read. I’m fond of it, so rereading it… Continue reading Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
A Literary Princess 