Little Red Riding Hood In The Big Bad City

Author : Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780756402334
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen classic fairy tales are made enchantingly modern by some of today's hottest science fiction and fantasy authors, who set these tales in urban surroundings. Authors include Tanya Huff, Jean Rabe, Jody Lynn Nye, and Michelle West. Original.

Author : Robert Paul Weston
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101462388
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust City written by Robert Paul Weston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since his father's arrest for the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, teen wolf Henry Whelp has kept a low profile in a Home for Wayward Wolves . . . until a murder at the Home leads Henry to believe his father may have been framed. Now, with the help of his kleptomaniac roommate, Jack, and a daring she-wolf named Fiona, Henry will have to venture deep into the heart of Dust City: a rundown, gritty metropolis where fairydust is craved by everyone and controlled by a dangerous mob of Water Nixies and their crime boss leader, Skinner. Can Henry solve the mystery of his family's sinister past? Or, like his father before him, is he destined for life as a big bad wolf?

Author : Rebecca Kraft Rector
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534469303
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Red and the Big Bad Editor written by Rebecca Kraft Rector and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this clever and playful fractured fairy tale picture book, the Big Bad Wolf is so distracted by Little Red’s poorly written thank you note to her grandmother that he keeps missing the chance to eat her! Once upon a time, Little Red received a bold new cape from her Granny. She wrote her a thank you note, packed a basket of goodies, and walked through the meadow to Granny’s house. But swish swash SWOOP, the big bad wolf stops her in her tracks, opens his mouth wide, leans in close and…​ Sees the note. Mr. Wolf can’t believe how sloppy the letter is—Red can’t give this to Granny! He corrects her grammar but misses out on his dinner while he’s distracted each time he encounters Red on the path. Can she keep outsmarting the Big Bad Editor and make it all the way to Granny’s house?

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135853878
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relentless Progress written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales and children's literature. In this book, Zipes argues that, despite a dangerous reconfiguration of children as consumers in the civilizing process, children's literature, fairy tales, and storytelling possess a uniquely powerful (even fantastic)capacity to resist the "relentless progress" of negative trends in culture. He also argues that these tales and stories may lose their power if they are too diluted by commercialism and merchandising. Stories have been used for centuries as a way to teach children (and adults) how to see the world, as well as their place within it. In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why American and British children aren’t exposed to more non-western fairy tales. From picture books to graphic novels, from children’s films to video games, from Grimm’s fairy tales to the multimedia Harry Potter phenomenon, Zipes demonstrates that while children’s stories have changed greatly in recent years, much about these stories have remained the same—despite their contemporary, high-tech repackaging. Relentless Progress offers remarkable insight into why classic folklore and fairy tales should remain an important part of the lives of children in today’s digital culture.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173672
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grimm Legacies written by Jack Zipes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. Zipes looks at the transformation of the Grimms' tales into children's literature, the Americanization of the tales, the "Grimm" aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales' utopian impulses. He shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk-tale collecting that continue through the current era. Zipes concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism. With erudition and verve, Grimm Legacies examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today's storytelling world.

Author : Pamela Sargent
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479406333
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puss in D.C. and Other Stories written by Pamela Sargent and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Sargent's latest collection assembles 10 of her recent stories, including "Puss in D.C.," "Strawberry Birdies," and "A Smaller Government," showing why she's one of the most popular authors currently writing science fiction today. From the introduction by Eleanor Arnason: "Sargent has a quality usually associated with hard SF: a certain kind of intellectual rigor. With her, it carries through all of her work. She thinks things through. ... Notice, when you read this collection, how many different kinds of stories are here and notice the range of moods: the stories go from really funny to really dark, with a lot in between. ... I also want to mention Sargent's persistence. Writing is a hard life. Many good woman writers I admired in the 1970s, '80s and '90s have vanished. They stopped writing or stopped trying to sell their fiction or changed their names and moved to writing romance, gay romance, generic fantasy -- whatever they could sell. In one way or another, they were silenced. Sargent has kept doing thoughtful, serious fiction, dealing with the issues that interested her."

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429903864
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Author : Irene Radford
Publisher : Bookview Cafe
ISBN 13 : 161138432X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sspeculative Journeys written by Irene Radford and published by Bookview Cafe. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Speculative Journeys, Irene Radford extends her short story collections into science fiction and contemporary fantasy with fourteen tales both old and new. Why is time-travel reserved for wealthy tourists and forbidden to historians? Can a spaceship captain keep secrets from her communication officer who speaks every language in the universe—even ones without words? Is a maze cut into solid granite a portal to a safer world…or something else? These stories and more with an exciting new introduction by speculative fiction superstar Sharon Lee—join the journey today!

Author : Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 110111844X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Magic written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen brand-new stories by some of fantasy's most imaginative authors about children born with the gift of magic--whether in our world or in fantastical universes. These young spell casters use their powers--for good or ill--to transform their worlds to their liking. From a fledgling wizard with political ambitions, to a boy whose touch can end suffering, to the "true" tale of how Da Vinci came by his talents, these are wondrous excursions into both the light and dark sides of magic.

Author : Chet Williamson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Screech written by Chet Williamson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen freedom of speech-themed tales for the dark of heart. Fifteen twisted visions of consequences from some of the finest writers of the dark fantastique: Chet Williamson Elizabeth Massie Matt Hayward Jessica McHugh Richard Christian Matheson Jenny Orosel Jack Ketchum Georgia R. Buns Tom Monteleone Patricia Lee Macomber David Niall Wilson Robert Guffey Joseph Mulak Michael Picco Norman Spinrad Fifteen stories from living legends, rising stars, venerable masters and surprising newcomers, exploring our troubled past, our turbulent present, and frightening futures yet to come. Freedom of Screech. It’s not for the faint of heart.