Leaping Beauty And Other Animal Fairy Tales |
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| Author:
| Maguire, Gregory |
| Illustrator:
| Demarest, Chris L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-190630-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle-grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles.
Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy- tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog...
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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle-grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles.
Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy- tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes; and one very bad walrus.