Did you ever wonder what happened to the seven dwarfs after Snow White ditched them, or what life was like for the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk?" Can you imagine a wicked stepsister who really gets what she deserves, and a Cinderella who isn't dainty, but actually rather plump? Then this is the book for you.
All the fairy tales you've heard over and over again are revisted here, made new by award-winning fantasy and science fiction authors: Garth Nix tells a twisted new version of "Hansel and Gretel," Nancy Farmer shows us what life was like for the princess's magical horse, Gregory Maguire provides a side of the seven dwarfs you've never seen, and Neil Gaiman lays out the "Instructions" that fairy tales should have taught you. In all, thirteen new stories are born from old fairy tales, some disturbing and dark, others strange and funny, but each offering something original and unexpected -- and as surprising as a wolf at the door.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9-13 years.

There are 192 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2013 by Simon & Schuster .

Terri Windling has been a fiction editor for more than thirty years and has won many awards for her work. She has published more than forty anthologies (often in partnership with Ellen Datlow), as well as her own novels, children's books, and nonfiction on fantasy, folklore, and mythic arts. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for "outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field as writer, editor, artist, educator, and mentor. " Her adult novel The Wood Wife won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, her collection The Armless Maiden was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the YA anthology Teeth (co-edited with Ellen Datlow) was short-listed for the Shirley Jackson Award. A former New Yorker, Terri lives with her husband and daughter in a small country village in Devon, England. "If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling-as writer, as painter, as editor, as muse. " -Jane Yolen

This book has the following chapters:
Contents

Introduction

The Months of Manhattan

Delia Sherman

Cinder Elephant

Jane Yolen

Instructions

Neil Gaiman

Mrs. Big: "Jack and the Beanstalk" Retold

Michael Cadnum

Falada: The Goose Girl's Horse

Nancy Farmer

A Wolf at the Door

Tanith Lee

Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens

Janeen Webb

Swans

Kelly Link

The Kingdom of Melting Glances

Katherine Vaz

Hansel's Eyes

Garth Nix

Becoming Charise

Kathe Koja

The Seven Stage a Comeback

Gregory Maguire

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Patricia A. McKillip