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Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws - Fairy-Tale Beasts (Hardcover)
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Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws - Fairy-Tale Beasts (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
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A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim
through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are
deeply inscribed in current popular culture-the beast redeemed by
beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the
frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like
the adventures of many fairy-tale heroes, a curious reader's
exploration in the genre can yield surprises, challenges, and
unexpected rewards. Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale
Beasts presents lesser-known tales featuring animals both wild and
gentle who appear in imaginative landscapes and enjoy a host of
surprising talents. With striking original illustrations by artist
Lina Kusaite and helpful introductions by fairy-tale scholars
Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones, the offbeat, haunting
stories in this collection are rich and surprisingly relevant,
demanding creative reading by audiences aged young adult and up.
Schacker and Jones choose stories that represent several centuries
and cultural perspectives on how animals think and move. In these
ten stories rats are just as seductive as Little Red Riding Hood's
wolf, snakes find human mates, and dancing sheep and well-mannered
bears blur the line between human and beast. Stories range in form
from literary ballads to tales that are long enough to be
considered short stories, and all are presented as closely as
possible to their original print versions, reflecting the use of
historical spelling and punctuation. Beasts move between typical
animal behavior (a bird seeking to spread its wings and fly or a
clever cat artfully catching its prey) and acts that seem much more
human than beastly (three fastidious bears keeping a tidy home
together or a snake inviting itself to the dinner table). Kusaite's
full-color artwork rounds out this collection, drawing
imaginatively on a wide range of visual traditions -from Inuit
design to the work of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Together with the short introductions to the tales themselves, the
illustrations invite readers to rediscover the fascinating world of
animal fairy tales. All readers interested in storytelling,
fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful
collection.
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