Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales

gregory maguire chris l. demarest

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 Chickens had 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!

Genres fantasyfairy talesfictionshort storieschildrenshumoraudiobookyoung adultmiddle graderetellings

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2004

This edition

Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published: February 21, 2006 by HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060564193
ASIN: 0060564199
Language: English

About the author

gregory maguire

Gregory Maguire is an American author, whose novels are revisionist retellings of children's stories (such as L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into Wicked). He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University, and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. He was a professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979-1985. In 1987 he co-founded Children's Literature New England (a non-profit educational charity).

Maguire has served as artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Hambidge Center. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.