LibGuides: Folk and Fairy Tales: Fractured Fairy Tales

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Fractured fairy tales are retellings or parodies of traditional fairy tales, created to subvert, inspire, or amuse modern audiences with a contemporary reimagining of the tales, sometimes with crossover narratives, for either adult or children readers.

Books

The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
ISBN: 067084487X
Publication Date: 1992
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
ISBN: 0399216197
Publication Date: 1989
Contrary to the original fable, in which there is only one child (Little Red Riding Hood) who interacts with the nemesis of the story (the wolf), Lon Po Po has three children. It is written from their point of view.
Politically correct bedtime stories by James Finn Garner
ISBN: 002542730X
Publication Date: 1994
Summary: Little red riding hood - The emperor's new clothes - The three little pigs - Rumpelstiltskin - the three codependent goats gruff - Rapunzel - Cinderella - Goldilocks - Snow White - Chicken Little - The frog prince - Jack and the beanstalk - The pied piper of Hamelin