In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (2013)Ī young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic-while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. NB: Here is the complete list of the series by various authors:Ģ.
Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together some of the leading fantasy, science fiction, and young adult writers to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans-and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit.
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