About this title: Remember the traditional fairy tales of childhood? Well, Barbara Walker respins them here with a healthy measure of feminist sensibility, whimsy, and inspiration, rewriting the female characters with delightful results. Gone are impossibly beautiful damsels in distress. Enlivened by stunning drawings, Walker's stories richly reveal the real-life ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780062513205ISBN:0062513206
Description: Harden, Laurie. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG++. Several small indentations on front, hardly noticeable. Text & illustrations excellent with no writing, underlining, names, or marks. A very nice copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. Illustrations. Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780733800429ISBN:0733800424
Description: Good. Light cover scuffing, and edge wear. Natural age tanning on otherwise clean pages. Remember the traditional fairy tales of childhood? Well, Barbara Walker respins them here with a healthy measure of feminist sensibility, whimsy, and inspiration, rewriting the female characters with delightful results. Gone are impossibly beautiful damsels in distress. Enlivened by stunning drawings, Walker's stories richly reveal the real-life morals of fairness, strength, and survival. Illus. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780062513205ISBN:0062513206
Description: Laurie Harden. Very Good. 0062513206 Pages unmarked. Paper tanning along edges. Glossy covers mildly edgeworn with slight spine slant. Binding firm. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good. Very good DJ. First Edition. Very good DJ. 1996. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free end paper. Clean covers with clean and tight pages, volume is square: overall a very presentable copy. Sharp corners. Tight Spine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper San Francisco, San Francisco, Ca. 1st edition, 1996.
Description: Fine copy; (Publishers error, some pulling away of 1st title page, not detached, a little corner bump, ) with a vg+ dj; (1" closed tear upper corner, rubbing. ) Contains 28 tales revamped by the author of The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths & Secrets, illustrated by Laurie Harden in b/w. x/244pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780062513205ISBN:0062513206
Description: New. Remember the traditional fairy tales of childhood? Well, Barbara Walker respins them here with a healthy measure of feminist sensibility, whimsy, and inspiration, rewriting the female characters with delightful results. Gone are impossibly beautiful... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1997-01-10
ISBN-13:9780062513205ISBN:0062513206
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
"I enjoy reading different versions of fairy tales, but Barbara Walker misses the mark. Although she makes ancient feminist references at the beginning of each tale, the telling of the stories are simplistic and transparent. Not recommended."
"I enjoy fairy tales and I am a feminist but after four of these stories I'd had enough of this book. Retelling traditional tales well takes subtlety and skill, both of which Walker's writing lacks. Lavine gets it right with "Fairest" and "Ella Enchanted.""
"I read at least one story a night before bed and sometimes I snuck some in on my lunch hour during the week. What a great collection of fairy tales! If only these were the types of tales parents read to their young girls..."
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