· Rating: 2/5. Description. Fantasy legend Jane Yolen presents a wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed; where a spinner of straw into gold becomes a money-changer and the big bad wolf retires to a nursing home. “Since Jane Yolen understands and appreciates the art of the fairy tale, studying all the classics and then some, she obviously knows the adage that when you know all the rules, you can break them. So breaking those rules, boundaries and expectations is what the How to Fracture a Fairy Tale collection is all about. Yolen breaks them in the right places.”/5(23). I was in my final year of college when the Rocky and Bullwinkle fractured fairy tale show was on so never watched it. (And my dorm had no tv.) The next year, living in New York City in , working as an editor, again no television. By I was selling my own picture books and as far as I knew, invented my own kind of fractured fairy tales.
Before you start Complete How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2 PDF EPUB by Jane Yolen Download, you can read below technical ebook details: Full Book Name: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2. Author Name: Jane Yolen. Book Genre: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Retellings, Short Stories. ISBN # Jane Yolen Tachyon Publications (Nov 5, ) Softcover $ Jane Yolen's How to Fracture a Fairy Tale collects eighteen new and previously published short stories that twist traditional fairy tales. Largely rooted in familiar European stories, the collection also plays with various elements of legend, lore, and fables, including Jewish folktales, Greek myths, and stories. Praise for How to Fracture a Fairy Tale "With a glowing introduction by author Marissa Meyer, and an afterword with an author's note and poem for each story, this showcase of 28 tales highlights Yolen's delightful imagination and elegant writing." —Library Journal "This collection is Jane Yolen at her best.".
“Since Jane Yolen understands and appreciates the art of the fairy tale, studying all the classics and then some, she obviously knows the adage that when you know all the rules, you can break them. So breaking those rules, boundaries and expectations is what the How to Fracture a Fairy Tale collection is all about. Yolen breaks them in the right places.”. You can read this before How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2 PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. “ [Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth century” —The New York Times Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed, from a spinner of straw as a “ [Yolen is] the. Jane Yolen is an icon of fantasy writing, as I realized once I started reading. She has written and edited hundreds of novels and stories throughout her long career. In How to Fracture a Fairy Tale Yolen employs all the necessary tools to keep readers engaged. Her stories are funny, outrageous, epic, dreamy, and everything in between.
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