Fairy Tale and Classic Story Re-telling
- Beauty and the Beast (with Marianna Mayer) (1978) ISBN 1-58717-017-5
- East of the Sun & West of the Moon (1980)
- Favorite Tales from Grimm (Retold by Nancy Garden) (1982)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1984) ISBN 0-02-765340-4
- A Christmas Carol (1986) (retold with mice, originally by Charles Dickens) ISBN 0-02-730310-1
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1987)
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Famous quotes containing the words fairy tale, fairy, tale, classic and/or story:
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water;”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident—mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Its idea of “production value” is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)