Fairy Tales/Retellings of Fairy Tales Book Help

[gali]

For this month, we will read Fairy Tales/Retelling of Fairy Tales Books.

Fairy Tale
- "a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands."
- "an instance of a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story."

Fairy Tale Suggestions:

• Cinderella
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  
• Beauty and the Beast
  
• Hansel and Gretel
  
• The Little Mermaid
  
• The Snow Queen
  
• Snow White and Rose Red
  
• Rumplestiltskin

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/369 ... _Fairytale

Retelling of a Fairy Tale
- a story that takes a fairy tale and changes plot points, characters, and/or themes, but a reader can still identify the original tale

Retelling of a Fairy Tale Suggestions:

• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
  
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  
• Beastly by Alex Flinn
  
• The Chronicles of Alice by Christina Henry
  
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  
• Geekerella by Ashley Poston
  
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fa ... retellings

What will you read this month?

[gali]

I have read many Fairy Tales and loved them.

From the list above, I have read and loved The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine.

[Faith reader]

I love that. I will check out some to read this week.

[Kreads1]

I have chosen to read Sarah Henning’s Sea Witch. It is a retelling of the story of the Sea Witch from Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid. There is a sequel as well, Sea Witch Rising.

[HanElizabeth397]

'A Court of Thorns and Roses' is a great suggestion for a retelling! But it's not only the first book that's a retelling of the story - the second book 'A Court of Mist and Fury' is also based on a fairytale: Snow White and the Huntsman! I'm also yet to read the 'Lunar Chronicles' but I'm excited to start!

[AGreatUsername]

Love 'Ella Enchanted'! I will have to check out 'A Court of Mist and Fury' and the sequel.

[Alezandra]

Just started reading the Lunar Chronicles. I enjoyed Cinder and now on Scarlet. I can imagine this can be turned into a series on the CW. It has potential, and cyborgs and extraterrestrial entities are all the rage now. I might try the other suggestions after I'm done.

[a_r_egerton]

Mercedes Lackey has written an entire series called "Elemental Masters" built around fairy tale retellings. Each book reworks a different fairy tale, and the series is set mainly in Edwardian England. The "masters" in the series title are sorcerers who can manipulate the elements. Many of the books feature female protagonists, and at least some could qualify as historical fiction. "Phoenix and Ashes," for example, is set during WWI, and the male lead is a veteran fighting PTSD as well as evil supernatural forces.

[kirthana_shivakumar]

I've read some of these and I have to say this list is beautiful. Lunar Chronicles was one of my favourite series so I recommend it to everyone.