Once Upon a Week officially kicks off tomorrow! YAY! This is a week where I and a few fellow bloggers are going to celebrate the fairy tales and fairy tales retold that we love. Be on the lookout for reviews, interviews, contests, more... all with a fairy tale theme. I'll be posting a central linking point for reviews and contests tomorrow, so be sure to check back all week to make sure you don't miss anything. Great chance to check out some new blogs!Want to join in? Here's some recommended reading:
I read it and loved it:
Beauty - Robin McKinley
Beastly - Alex Flinn
A Curse Dark As Gold - Elizabeth C. Bunce (review coming tomorrow!)
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
The Stepsister Scheme - Jim C. Hines
Fairest - Gail Carson Levine
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
I haven't read it, but I hear it's good:
As You Wish - Jackson Pearce
A Kiss In Time - Alex Flinn
Ice - Sarah Beth Durst
My Fair Godmother - (recommended by Juju)
Beauty -Sheri Tepper (recommended by avisannschild)
Beast - Donna Jo Napoli (recommneded by Andrea)
Deerskin - Robin Mckinley (recommended by Misty)
Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley (recommended by melissa @1lbr)
Princess of the Midnight Ball - Jessica Day George (recommended by Emilee)
Fairest of All (recommended by GMR)
Godmother (recommended by GMR)
Crazy Beautiful - Lauren Baratz-Logsted (recommended by Angie)
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier (recommended by Angie)
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's my Prince - Melissa Kantor (recommended by Falling Off the Shelf)
Ash - Malinda Lo (recommended by Sara)
Briar Rose - Jane Yolen (recommended by Kristen)
Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier (recommended by Kristen)
The Princess and the Hound - Mette Ivie Harrison (recommended by Kristen)
The Princess and the Bear - Mette Ivie Harrison (recommended by Kristen)
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow - Jessica Day George (recommended by Kristen)
The Fire Rose - Mercedes Lackey (recommended by Ladybug)
Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey (found at The Hiding Spot)
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
Watching the Roses - Adele Geras
Waking Rose by Regina Doman
Book of Enchantments - Patricia C. Wrede
Thornspell - Helen Lowe
The Door in The Hedge - Robin Mckinley
Snow - Tracy Lynn
Melusine - Lynn Reid Banks
Not quite a fairy tale, but with a similar feel:
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Princess Ben - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Dreaming Anastasia - Joy Preble
Green Angel - Alice Hoffman
Keturah and Lord Death - Martine Leavitt
Lost in the Labyrinth - Patrice Kindl
Bitterbynde Trilogy - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
The Garden - Elsie V. Aidinoff
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
Not enough for you here? For more recommendations, check out the Fairy Tales Retold Shelfari group.
10 comments:
This sounds like a lot of fun! I'm excited to read your posts.
I am so excited for this week! I have all my posts ready to go live! A lot of the books you've mentioned I haven't heard of, I must look them up! Thanks for the great idea Vanessa, it's going to be fun! :)
YAYYYYY so excited
I posted my announcement today. I will be kicking off the week with a review of Ash and my first author interview!!!
Yes, I'm so excited! I have my posts ready to go and I'm pumped to read everyone elses =D I love your fairy tales retold list, I'll have to check out some of the ones I haven't heard of!
Oooh, nice list. I'm really looking forward to this week. I had a blast doing fairy tale month at my blog.
I just found your site and am so pleased to see a Fairy Tale week in motion!
There are a number of blogs now that deal with fairy tale news, reviews and fairy tale related things every day.
Mine is Once Upon A Blog (http://fairytalenewsblog.blogspot.com/) and I link to others in my sidebar. I update daily - sometimes multiple posts per day, depending on what news I find from reviews to events to fashion, films and much more.
Most active and notable are SurLaLune's Blog (http://surlalunefairytales.blogspot.com/) which updates daily too (we often link to each other and support each other's 'reporting'), Diamonds and Toads (http://www.diamondsandtoads.com/) which updates at least weekly - sometimes more, The Fairy Tale Cupboard (http://thefairytalecupboard.blogspot.com/) also weekly or more. Told This Time is an awesome live journal fairy tale community site (http://community.livejournal.com/told_tales/) which has a wide ranging set of topics - all fairy tale related and from many different sources.
Glad to hear so many are enjoying Fairy Tale Week!
Your event has been blogged!
Here's the link:
http://fairytalenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/once-upon-week.html
Loving everything so far!
Exciting! with hype from Misty and you I'm gonna have to join in. Fun theme!
I'm just finding out about this and can't wait to read everyone's posts.
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