About the Book

Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series The Hamlet Chronicles.

Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or 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.

Resources

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780060818418
• ISBN 10: 0060818417
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• On Sale: 11/23/2004
• List Price:21.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations
• BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
• BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General

Gregory Maguire

Biography

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of The Brides of Maracoor; The Oracle of Maracoor; A Wild Winter Swan; Hiddensee; After Alice; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror; and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. He lives with his family in New England.

Other Works by Gregory Maguire

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  The Witch of Maracoor

  By Gregory Maguire

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  The Oracle of Maracoor

  By Gregory Maguire

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  The Brides of Maracoor

  By Gregory Maguire