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FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 12:41 AM

Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
stories for adult readers? A patron just finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire
(an update of The Wizard of Oz) and is looking for more of the same. I know
Maguire also wrote a book that is based on the Cinderella story. Can anybody
think of any others? Thanks in advance for your help.
K. Monsour
Franklin Square Public LIbrary
Franklin Square, NY

FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 8:27 AM

Sheri Tepper's BEAUTY,
Terry Prachett's WITCHES ABROAD
Tanith Lee's RED AS BLOOD
Angela Carter's THE BLOODY CHAMBER
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To: <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:44 AM
Subject: Adult books based on children's stories


> Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
> following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
> stories for adult readers? A patron just finished Wicked by Gregory
Maguire
> (an update of The Wizard of Oz) and is looking for more of the same. I
know
> Maguire also wrote a book that is based on the Cinderella story. Can
anybody
> think of any others? Thanks in advance for your help.
> K. Monsour
> Franklin Square Public LIbrary
> Franklin Square, NY

FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 9:04 AM

Jack Zipes has a book called Don't Bet on the Prince, which is a
collection of retellings of fairy tales in a seriously different way. For
instance, the retake of Red Riding Hood has the girl going to visit her
grandmother, who is a werewolf. It sounds sort of loopy, but it is very
dark, primal and brooding. Most of the stories would be suitable for
kids, but it is clearly an adult book, and the kids would have to be
pretty savvy for some of them. I loved it. Some of the tales are
original, but many are new versions of old ones.

Also, Truly Grim Tales is a YA collection of altered fairy tales. In that
version of Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack is a pygmy and the giants are
regular humans who need a particular mineral in the bones of pygmies for
their survival. Again, it sounds silly but it is very effective and
eerie. The author is Galloway.

Debbie Spear
Greenville (SC) County Library

FROM: "Roberta S. Johnson" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 10:00 AM

> Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
> following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
> stories for adult readers?

Robert Coover wrote Pinocchio in Venice, a (definitely) adult version of the Collodi
story. There is a long list of re-written fairy tales like Briar Rose (a personal favorite)
by Jane Yolen at <A HREF="http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklist12.html#FTales">http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklist12.html#FTales</A> One novel that
isn't on that list that I love is Jack of Kinrowan by Charles DeLint, a retelling of some of
the Faerie myths and featuring Jack the Giant-Killer as a young Canadian woman in
Toronto.

Also, John Barth wrote Chimera, which is three stories of mythical characters like
Perseus and Bellerophon, but I think this is veering from what your patron really wants?

Best,

Roberta


Roberta S. Johnson
Adult Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
[removed]@nslsilus.org
Opinions my own.

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@OPENGOVT.OPEN.ORG>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 10:22 AM

One of my favorite books this year is ENCHANTMENT by Orson Scott Card,
which is based on Sleeping Beauty.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

>>> <[removed]@aol.com> 11/17/99 10:44pm >>>
Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
stories for adult readers? A patron just finished Wicked by Gregory
Maguire
(an update of The Wizard of Oz) and is looking for more of the same. I
know
Maguire also wrote a book that is based on the Cinderella story. Can
anybody
think of any others? Thanks in advance for your help.
K. Monsour
Franklin Square Public LIbrary
Franklin Square, NY

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 10:59 AM

Robin McKinley is a foremost practitioner of this art... I think nearly all
of her work has come from retelling children's fairy tales. Beauty is her
first, and there's also the following titles:

Rose daughter . 1999. (Beauty & the Beast, 2nd time she's done this story)
Spindle's end . 2000.
Beauty a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast . 1993
A knot in the grain and other stories . 1997. (Short stories)
Deerskin . 1994. (one of the most difficult ones to read, lots of emotional
issues here. the protagonist is from the princess who changes into a
hind)
The outlaws of Sherwood . 1988. (Robin Hood)
Imaginary lands . 1985
The door in the hedge . 1987-8.
Rowan . 1992
Black Beauty, 1987.
Tales from The jungle book . 1985.

Robin has more than just these, but the other ones are her own fantasy/SF
novels, not retellings of children's stories.

Kim Laird, Acquisitions, Documents, Serials Team Leader
Library of Michigan, PO Box 30007, 717 West Allegan Street,
Lansing, MI 48909. 517-373-9438 (Fax) 517-373-5866 (TDD only)
[removed]@libofmich.lib.mi.us HOURS: 7:30a.m. - 4 p.m.

FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 11:22 AM

FROM: "Charlotte Bradshaw" <[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 12:54 PM

I haven't seen Robin McKinley suggested yet. Specifically Deerskin, based
ont he fairytale Donkey Skin, may be in your YA section, but would
definitely appeal to adults. Also she has done two versions of Beauty and
the Beast, the first Beauty in 1978 probably in the children's section of
your library, the second Rose Daughter in 1997.

Charlotte Bradshaw
Sanchez Branch
San Mateo County Library
[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 [removed]@aol.com wrote:

> Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
> following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
> stories for adult readers? A patron just finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire
> (an update of The Wizard of Oz) and is looking for more of the same. I know
> Maguire also wrote a book that is based on the Cinderella story. Can anybody
> think of any others? Thanks in advance for your help.
> K. Monsour
> Franklin Square Public LIbrary
> Franklin Square, NY
>

FROM: "Donna Jo Atwood" <[removed]@JCL.LIB.KS.US>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 1:36 PM

Donna Jo Napoli has written some YA's that adults should like--Sirena
(based on Odysseus) and Zel (Rapunzel). We just received Confessions of an
Ugly Stepsister by Maguire, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

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> Subject: Adult books based on children's stories
>
>
> Hello all! I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer with the
> following question. Are there any fiction books that update children's
> stories for adult readers? A patron just finished Wicked by
> Gregory Maguire
> (an update of The Wizard of Oz) and is looking for more of the
> same. I know
> Maguire also wrote a book that is based on the Cinderella story.
> Can anybody
> think of any others? Thanks in advance for your help.
> K. Monsour
> Franklin Square Public LIbrary
> Franklin Square, NY
>

FROM: "Jodi Sapita" <[removed]@lib.naperville.il.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 1:58 PM

I'm actually reading one right now -- Confessions of an ugly
stepsister, by Gregory Maguire. It's a retelling of the
Cinderella story from one of the stepsister's viewpoint. I'm quite
enjoying it! He also wrote a book called Wicked, about the little
girl who grows up to be the Wicked Witch of the West.


Jodi Sapita
Reference Librarian
Nichols Library
Naperville, IL

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 2:53 PM

Hi Kate!

Anne Rice writes erotic stories based on Sleeping Beauty under a penname
which is escaping me at the moment.

Karen (from Queens' Reader's Advisory class)
[removed]@aol.com

FROM: "Karen Traynor" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 3:07 PM

Gregory Maguire updates two children's classics in"

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of
Oz)

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella)

Both are excellent, but def written for adults and not children.

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: "Sarah Stein" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 3:32 PM

>From the OCLC authority file:

5 100 1 Rice, Anne, §d 1941-  
6 500 1 Rampling, Anne, §d 1941-  
7 500 1 Roquelaure, A. N.  

10 670 Vogue, Apr. 1986: §b p. 212 (Anne Rice has published four
pornographic pseudonymous novels under A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling)

if I am remembering correctly, the Roquelare titles had the Sleeping Beauty
theme.

Sarah
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Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Adult books based on children's stories


>Hi Kate!
>
>Anne Rice writes erotic stories based on Sleeping Beauty under a penname
>which is escaping me at the moment.
>
>Karen (from Queens' Reader's Advisory class)
[removed]@aol.com
>

FROM: <[removed]@dorsai.org>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 8:20 PM

Yes, the Sleeping Beauty erotic novels are published under the
A.N. Roquelaure pseudonym. The first is The Claiming of Sleeping
Beauty.

Alison

> † 10 670 Vogue, Apr. 1986: §b p. 212 (Anne Rice has published four
> pornographic pseudonymous novels under A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling)
>
> if I am remembering correctly, the Roquelare titles had the Sleeping Beauty
> theme.
>

Alison Hendon
[removed]@amanda.dorsai.org

"Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night...."
- Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"

FROM: "Jef Martin" <[removed]@ci.sat.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 8:26 PM

FROM: "Grant Parish Library - ILL" <[removed]@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
REC'D: 11/19/99, 2:13 PM

Ann Rampling

At 03:56 PM 11/18/99 EST, you wrote:
>Hi Kate!
>
>Anne Rice writes erotic stories based on Sleeping Beauty under a penname
>which is escaping me at the moment.
>
>Karen (from Queens' Reader's Advisory class)
[removed]@aol.com
>

FROM: "Cheryl Cammenga" <[removed]@kentlibrary.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 11/22/99, 10:42 AM

There is a sequel to "The Wind in the Willows" called
"The Willows in Winter" by William Horwood


Cheryl Cammenga, Manager "Opinions given above are
Kentwood Branch personal and do not reflect
Kent District Library official library policy or
Grand Rapids, MI statements."

"There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see
yet small enough to solve." Mike Leavitt

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