--and there really seems to be a lot of interest in fractured fairy tales.One of my favorites is Sleeping Ugly
in which the prince is poor, the beautiful princess Miserella, who is asleep, was put to sleep because she was mean to a fairy, and the ugly girl lives happily ever after. Then there's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
the "real" story, from the wolf's point of view. Kids love The Principal's New Clothes
with the fashionable principal getting his comeuppance. I have a video of my daughter, about 7 years old, sitting in a white wicker chair in a pink nightgown, looking angelic, and reading aloud from Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
. It is not for the faint of heart, and has Roald Dahl at his worst (which is great)! This is a book to preview before reading it to kids. He puts his own grotesque spin on a number of classic fairy tales. Another such anthology is The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
. Kids will enjoy these stories---but make sure they are familiar with the original story first! They will also enjoy writing their own fractured fairy tales.
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I had to laugh at your mention of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes. My son was a Roald Dahl fan in elementary school (and still is). One of our favorite books we read together is The BFG. I purchase Revolting Rhymes for us, thinking it would be a cute read-aloud for his classroom, too. Well, fortunately, we read it first, and I didn't go ahead and recommend it to his teacher as a read-aloud. It truly is not for the faint of heart, but it is definetly for those of us who love the quirkiness that is Roald Dahl.
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