Tag: #fairytales

• Reading Goals 2025

  I’m beginning this year with my feel-good favorite by Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year. This is the tenth year in a row I’ve read it and just the sort of comfort-reading one needs when faced with so much uncertainty in the world. This year I truly mean it when I say I want to…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 1, 2025

  Book Suggestions

  #contemporaryromance, #disneyhyperion, #fairytales, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #retelling, #scholastic, #simon&schuster, #YA

• Ranking A Tale of Magic trilogy

  The prequel to Colfer’s popular middle grade fantasy series, The Land of Stories, this trilogy takes us to the oppressive world of Brystal Evergreen. Chariot Hills and the rest of the Southern Kingdom are ruled by old white men and predictably, religion, and patriarchy reign surpreme. Women can’t read, gender roles are strictly enforced and…

  rachelbeerwoman

  August 12, 2023

  Rankings

  #ataleofmagic, #ataleofsorcery, #ataleofwitchcraft, #chriscolfer, #fairytales, #fantasy, #fracturedfairytale, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #rachelreads&reviews

• Ranking The Princess Tales

  It’s clear that Levine excells in her humorous fractured fairytales and the short stories of The Princess Tales are no exception. I highly suggest parents or at least librarians stock this series for story time. It’s a very whimsical series and kids are sure to enjoy it.

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 24, 2023

  Rankings

  #cinderellisandtheglasshill, #fairytales, #forbiddle’ssake, #gailcarsonlevine, #harpercollins, #princesssonoraandthelongsleep, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #thefairy’smistake, #thefairy’sreturn, #theprincesstales, #theprincesstest

• The School for Good and Evil: One True King Review

  The End of Ends have finally come. To keep things simple, the minor spoilers are under the cut but lets get to characterization and plot first. Since Tedros was revealed to have the final ring, and the wedding crashing went wrong, King Arthur’s ghost comes in with a deus ex machina to give his son…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 11, 2023

  Reviews

  #fairytales, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #onetrueking, #rachelreads&reviews, #somanchainani, #thecamelotyears, #theschoolforgoodandevil

• The School for Good and Evil: A Crystal of Time Review

  Remember in the last review when I said that I thought I knew the villain. . . Yeah, I was so wrong. Once again, Chainani subverts all my expectations as the Snake and the Lion switch sides (or do they?) just as all the rest of the Evers are scrambling to fight back against a…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 7, 2023

  Reviews

  #acrystaloftime, #fairytales, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews, #somanchainani, #thecamelotyears, #theschoolforgoodandevil

• Author Highlight: Gail Carson Levine

  Now I already wrote about the books of hers that I adore in my Favorite Fairytale Books and Favorite Fairy Books which gives you a clue as to which she genre she excels in. In fact her most famous novel is the Cinderella retelling, Ella Enchanted (its movie also helped shoot Anne Hathway to movie…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 19, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #disneyhyperion, #ellaenchanted, #ever, #fairydusttrilogy, #fairytales, #gailcarsonlevine, #harpercollins, #neverfairies, #rachelreads&reviews

• Fairytale Books

  Whether it be fractured or an innovative retelling, here are some fairytale books for kids and young adults. Kids Land of Stories by Chris Colfer This Glee star is definately multi-talanted. Using his own literary love for fairytales, he has created the Land of Stories. A land where every fairytale has happened once, but rather…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 14, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #arthurlevinebooks, #chriscolfer, #christopherhealy, #disneyhyperion, #entwined, #fairytales, #flaviabujor, #gailcarsonlevine, #greenwillowbooks, #grimmtasticgirls, #grounded, #halfuponatime, #harpercollins, #heatherdixon, #heroesguidtosavingyourkingdom, #jamesriley, #joanholub, #kingdomkeepers, #landofstories, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #lunarchronciles, #macmillan, #marissameyer, #meganmorrison, #onceuponatime, #princesstales, #rachelreads&reviews, #ridleypearson, #sarahmylowski, #scholastic, #simon&schuster, #somanchainani, #suzannewilliams, #theprophecyofthestones, #theschoolforgoodandevil, #tiaraclub, #vivianfrench, #waldenpondpress, #whateverafter