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Review: Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

By Kasey | April 5, 2024 - 7:00 am |March 26, 2024 Blogger's Favorites, Book Review and Content, Nonfiction

Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc
Coach House Books
Published March 3, 2020

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About Disfigured

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you’re beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she’ll have a happy ending?

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Review: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

By Kasey | March 3, 2024 - 7:00 am |February 23, 2024 Blogger's Favorites, Book Review and Content, Fantasy, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern #1)
Shannon Hale
Bloomsbury USA Children’s
Published December 1, 2008

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About The Goose Girl

She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.

Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his … Continue reading →

Top Ten Tuesday: When You’re In the Mood for Folk and Fairytales

By Kasey | March 1, 2016 - 7:00 am |May 2, 2018 Blogger's Favorites, Fantasy, Lists, Middle Grade 8-12, News and Fun, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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Top Ten Tuesday is a Weekly Meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is about finding books to fit our moods. Recently I read a post about some fairytales with a new twist, and it made me think of a few that I’m excited about. I’ve posted a list of books based on Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and stories about Merlin before, because I LOVE folk tales and fairytales retold. But this will be a fresh new list. Most of these books I’ve already read and reviewed, but there are a few I haven’t gotten to yet but am super excited to read.