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Title: Fractured Fairy Tales by A.J. JACOBS ISBN: 0-553-37373-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Classic cartoon stories with 90's update?
Comment: I bought the book hoping for reasonable reproductions of the original "Fractured Fairy Tales" from Bullwinkle. For example, Pinocchio wakes up and wants a cup of "Joe"? Come on, how nineties can you get? That is just one example of how the original fractured fairy tales have been bastardized by this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Fairy Tale is Over Success Was Not Achieved Here
Comment: Retelling fairy tales we all grew up with is a sensational idea which has been done extremely well. Just not here! In other books yes, but here unfortunately no. The stories in this book do have one thing in common with the original motive of fairy tales. They will put you to sleep. These are some of the most boring low quality stories ever written. Also avoid the books A Wolf at the Door and Snow White Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow as they are no better than this.
If you do want really good retelling of classic tales rewritten in sensational format buy Once Upon A Crime or Politically Correct Fairy Tales. You will find what you're after in those books.
Rating: 3
Summary: Funny, but you can't beat the originals
Comment: I, like most reviewers, was shocked to see that this book, based off the hilarious segments of the same name from the 60's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" show, has taken a 90's twist (did they feel the need to compete with "Politcally Correct Bedtime Stories"?) Nevertheless, this book is still funny in usual FFF form. i.e. In "Beauty and the Beast", our "beauty" is only pretty when she sits on her donkey. As soon as she pops off "POOF"!- she's a bowser again. The charming prince has only seen her on her donkey, so they get married with her on the mule and for the better part of their marriage...only to find that her "prince" is quite the uggo himself once he jumps off his horse. A match made in heaven!
You'll get 25 classic tales twisted in FFF fashion, but be prepared for an updated version than the series on Bullwinkle provided. It does tend to tarnish the original charm, but is still pretty funny. A nice nostalgic gift for any Bullwinkle/FFF fan.
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Title: Cinderella Outgrows the Glass Slipper and Other Zany Fractured Fairy Tale Plays by Joan M. Wolf, J. M. Wolf ISBN: 0439271681 Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: 12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays by Justin McCory Martin ISBN: 0439153891 Publisher: Instructor Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times by James Finn Garner ISBN: 002542730X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Readers Theatre: by Anthony D. Fredericks ISBN: 1563081741 Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner ISBN: 0028604199 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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