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 middlegrade series, The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. 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.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2009 by HarperCollins .

Gregory Maguire is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which was made into a hit musical. He is also America's premier interpreter of the fairy-tale world. He lives with his family in Boston, US. Chris L. Demarest is the illustrator of The Cows Are Going to Paris and My Little Red Car, which he wrote. He lives in New Hampshire.