Our most treasured fairy tales whose protagonists’ genders are reversed. Handsome and Cinder are handsome young men with greedy brothers, Jacqueline is an adventurous young girl, Rapunzel has a beautiful blonde beard, Snowdrop and sleeping Handsome are both awakened by a brave princess… It’s really amazing how similar these fairy tales are. Even when the genders are reversed, they seem even more in tune with the times. The only thing I found different was seeing a king sewing or spinning. A book to offer our children alongside the more classic fairy tales.
“Once upon a time, in the middle of winter when the snowflakes were falling like feathers on the earth, a King sat at a window framed in black ebony and sewed. And as he sewed and gazed out to the white landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow outside, and because the red showed out so well against the white he thought to himself: “Oh! what wouldn’t I give to have a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony!”
Listened to as an audiobook
Contents
Handsome and the Beast / Cinder, or the Little Glass Slipper / How to Tell a True Prince /
Jacqueline and the Beanstalk / Gretel and Hansel / Mr Rapunzel / Snowdrop / Little Red Riding Hood /
The Sleeping Handsome in the Wood / Frau Rumpelstiltzkin / Mistress Puss in Boots / Thumbelin