Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
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- CHF 13.00
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- CHF 13.00
Descrizione dell’editore
Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . .
Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside.
People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change..
They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders.
It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fransman (The House That Groaned) and debut author Plackett reflect a world in which gender roles are not so strictly defined in this charming collection of 12 lightly retold fairy tales. In "Handsome and the Beast," it is the beautiful son of a female merchant who encounters a female Beast. A princess who's out hunting wakes a sleeping prince in "The Sleeping Handsome in the Wood." While some of the gender changes are more whimsical—it is a rooster who lays the golden eggs in "Jacqueline and the Beanstalk"—outside of the gender bending, the beats of the stories themselves remain exactly the same: Snowdrop's vain evil stepfather still tries to kill him once with laces, once with a comb, and finally with a poisoned apple, and Thumbalina—now Thumbalin—still finds his home among the flowers. There's nothing radical here, and though the authors discuss trans and nonbinary identities in their introduction, they're not explicitly present in the tales themselves. But even these mild revisions breathe fresh air into well-known and loved tales, breaking up conventional dynamics and outdated ideologies. Coupled with vibrant illustrations from Fransman, this is sure to enchant adults and children alike.
