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Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales

by Gregory Maguire · 2004

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Once upon a time . . . nothing was as it seemed!

What if Sleeping Beauty were actually a frog princess, doomed to be Weeping Beauty forever? What if the Three Chickenshad to outwit Goldifox? What if Cinder-Elephant lost her glass plate slipper? Then you'd have this hilarious collection of twisted fairy tales from the master of the absurd, Gregory Maguire!

Genre
fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfairy tale retellingsfairy tale retellingsMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thischildhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adultmiddle grade
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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