Books that reimagine fairytales
Books that reimagine fairytales
There are books that really propel you into fairyesque worlds. I have a corner of my reading room where I like to have a few books of fairytales and legends. Mushrooms are of course essential
Here are some books that have taken me to other worlds…..
Bitter Greens
Rapunzel – the women behind the beloved fairytale Rapunzel
The Wizard of Oz
This is a magical read – we get to go back and see how Dorothy came to start her journey on the yellow brick road..
A magical world created by the turn of a globe
This sounded wonderful to me from the off as my dad used to spin a globe at bedtime and ask me where we would go… The globe in this book turns of its own accord and the story goes in a whole different direction to what my little mind could have coped with. But I love the idea of both!
The Wager and the Bear
Once upon a time there was a polar bear on an iceberg…..
And perhaps one of the most magical books of a world where you enter via a circus tent…
The Night Circus
The opening lines of this book still give me all the feels:
“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
