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What are your favorite fairy tales? Favorite Disney movies based off of them? Favorite novel-length retellings? Like C.S. Lewis said, there comes a time when you are "old enough" to be into fairy tales again, and I've totally gotten back into it since my Disney-princess years.
My lifelong favorite fairy tales are Beauty and the Beast and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (the latter is the Norwegien twist on the former). Favorite Disney remakes would have to be Tangled (the real Rapunzel is strange) and Beauty and the Beast (it was always my favorite from age three, so...though I have also seen the old French one). As for novel versions, I haven't found a satisfactory one for ES, WM (there are many, but all just seem to taste flat--the one by Jessica Day George came the closest to decent) so I just read the original. Otherwise, Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (Sleeping Beauty) and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Cinderella) are my top two favorite fairy tale retellings (two of my top ten favorite books, actually!)
Does anyone know of a good novel of Snow White? I've read Fairest, of course, but I wondered if there were any others.
submitted by Everinne, age 15, Fairyland
(October 5, 2014 - 12:12 pm)
(October 5, 2014 - 12:12 pm)
ANOTHER BOOK BY ROBIN MICKENLY ?!? I gotta go check this out.
(October 5, 2014 - 3:42 pm)
Ohmygoodness, are you another diehard McKinley fan? I ADORE her novels (mostly the Damar ones but her fairy tales are great too--I just finished Rose Daughter and it was AWESOME).
(October 5, 2014 - 6:58 pm)
Yes, I love her books but I really haven't read any -- I read the Robin Hood one and Beauty, but I haven't read the others. * Sigh *
Patchi says gxpg. Is that a movie rating ?
(October 6, 2014 - 6:19 pm)
I loved Beauty when I first read it, though I reread it after Rose Daughter and felt it paled a little. My library doesn't have Outlaws of Sherwood and I am FURIOUS because I love Robin Hood! But I totally recommend you read The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown; they are the best fantasy books I've read in a long time.
(October 6, 2014 - 8:02 pm)
Outlaws Of Sherwood was pretty good but it was a little dense for me so I'll probably wait a year or two, but I absolutly L-O-V-E LOVE Beauty !
(October 7, 2014 - 6:06 pm)
I just got Spindle's End from my local library ( I literally had it on hold for [ nearly ] two weeks ) and I love it ALREADY !
(November 6, 2014 - 11:13 pm)
I like The Little Mermaid. The real one, even though it is sad.
Frozen fact: say Hans Kristoff Anna Sven really fast.
(October 5, 2014 - 8:42 pm)
Oh, I think that my favorite would be Hansel and Gretel. That one has always been a favorite, but I really like The Snow Queen, too. So, my favorite novel retelling would be Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu. Elle Enchanted is really good, too. I don't really watch Disney movies. Frozen was a rare exception, but I wouldn't rate it a favorite.
(October 6, 2014 - 7:44 pm)
Breadcrumbs is based on the Snow Queen? That's awesome! For some reason, I always thought that was Hansel and Gretel.
(October 8, 2014 - 4:06 pm)
I have so many favorites! I love Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (I've read just about every different version that there is), Rapunzel (even though the real story is a little funky, I had this really beautifully illustratedm copy when I was little), and so many more that I can't think of right now.
Favorite Disney addaptions are Tangled, Sleeping Beauty (even though some of the changes from the original slightly bother me), Mulan (isn't relly a fairytale, but whatever), and Frozen.
Ugh, I read so many fariytale adaption novels that I can't think of any favorites right now. I'll get back to you on that.
I've been meaning to read some Robin McKinley books! I'm glad to hear that they're good!
(October 7, 2014 - 10:17 am)
Oh, heck, "good" is a bit of an understatement. "Fantastic" might be a bit more to the mark.
(October 7, 2014 - 12:56 pm)
I have literally grown up on fairy tales. (Though most of them were twists on the original stories, which actually says a lot about me.)
Hansel and Gretel. (Anyone who has seen/read the Fairytale RP would probably guess that. Plus I love the opportunities in that story to branch off from. Seriously, there is so much potential there. I'm sad more hasn't been done with it.)
Cinderella. (Hands down my favorite princess.) I've seen the Disney version of this, which is the one I originally grew up on. Seriously, who doesn't like a girl who goes from cinders to royalty, and has mice and a dog as her best friends?! Then I've also seen things like Ever After, and Ella Enchanted. I'm also kind of looking forward to the 2015 version, as I am hoping it is done proper. If not, I will be livid. (I consider myself a very particular Cinderella critic, being as she has been my life long hero, one of the inspirations for Blonde Heroines Rule, and I went as her for Halloween about 6 years in a row. Plus I nearly had a heart attack and could not form complete sentences when I met her at Disney World.)
Little Red Riding Hood. I've adored the mystery and blunt gruesome evilness of this story. Again, another one that has a great deal of potential for neat themes, yet little (at least in my knowledge) has been properly done with it.
Robin Hood (I'm just a little dork but I simply ADORE Disney's version just cause it's so cute and charming and funny and loveable and yeah, that is one of my favorite movies.) But I've also really appreciated other tellings of it. Especially Hawk Maid, which I highly recommend.
(October 8, 2014 - 10:36 pm)
They're doing a new Cinderella? I was actually thinking recently about how there are so few new ideas for films that directors have to go back and do remakes of old films and fairy tales. Like how Maleficent is a redo on Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Huntsman is a gritty Snow White and I also heard there's a live-action Little Mermaid in the works, supposedly with Emma Watson.
(October 9, 2014 - 1:08 pm)
I'm so excited for Cinderella! I've been waiting for it since I heard it was coming out like a year and a half ago.
Maybe she's in both, but I'm pretty sure that Emma Watson is in the new Beauty and the Beast, not The Little Mermaid.
(October 10, 2014 - 10:41 am)
I don't think they're doing a new Beauty and the Beast; at least, I hadn't heard of it. But that would be cool if they are.
And the Cinderella sounds awesome (except for the fact that Bellatrix Lestrange will play the fairy godmother!).
(October 10, 2014 - 4:09 pm)