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Datlow, Ellen & Terri Windling, eds. Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
165p. CIP. S & S. 2003. RTE $16.95. ISBN 0-689-84613-4. LC 2002030409.
Gr 4-8--In this anthology, noted children's and adult fantasy writers play with the bones of traditional stories, songs, and characters to create 13 vibrant, imaginative short stories. Bruce Coville, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and Jane Yolen are among the contributors. In the tales, the fisherman and his wife are viewed from across the water by a lonely motherless girl; fairies give Sleeping Beauty a century of time to explore the world before she wakes up and settles down; Lupe, in her mother's red cape, faces down the wolf. Some stories are set in the folkloric past, others weave in contemporary details such as harried urban life, computers, and cell phones with pleasing ...
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