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Fairy Tale Retellings

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This is a collection of webpages, websites, articles, and apps to help fairy tale lovers find their next great retelling!

Dark Parables Wiki. ‎Night of the Full Moon on the App Store. It is a roguelike deck building game.

‎Night of the Full Moon on the App Store

During the adventure, you feel like exploring a black fairy tale. The Graphics & Sound Track will bring you an immersed experience. "Night of the Full Moon" is a stand-alone card game. There is no mandatory beginners guide, no internet connection, no brush map, no ten strokes. ‎Trollskogen on the App Store. I absolutely adore this game, and I won’t be deleting it any time soon, I’m only giving this game four stars because....

‎Trollskogen on the App Store

The story leaves on a cliffhanger, I don’t know how the actual story ends, and I’m unsure if you guys are still making more things to add to the game.The theory that I have, is that the troll mother’s and the human mother’s children were both shapeshifters, the children took two different forms when they were babies, and confused the mothers, the babies were switched because of this. Unfortunately for the two shapeshifting babies, they are unable to return to their true forms. The burial site the troll mother was sitting on is for her dead child, a.k.a. Meet your next favorite book. SurLaLune. An Epic Chart of 162 Young Adult Retellings.

Presenting YA RETELLINGS – an epic infographic brought to you by Epic Reads.

An Epic Chart of 162 Young Adult Retellings

Read your way through this list of 162 young adult books that are all retellings or re-imaginings of popular classic literature, myths, fairy tales and Shakespearean plays.📢 📢 UPDATE: 📢📢 We have added a few more titles to the lists below and they are indicated as being “Not pictured” so you will know that those are new and will be added to the visuals next winter! Happy reading, book nerds! Fun facts about this chart: 100 Must Read Fairytale Retellings for Adults and YA Readers. This content contains affiliate links.

100 Must Read Fairytale Retellings for Adults and YA Readers

When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. This list of must-read fairytale retellings for adults and YA readers is sponsored by Everywhere You Want to Be by Christina June, Blink YA Books. From author Christina June comes a new young adult novel, Everywhere You Want to Be, a modern retelling of the Red Riding Hood story. Tilly Castillo thought she lost her chance to be a contemporary dancer, but when a summer job in New York City appears, nothing can stop her from saying yes—not her mother, not the other cutthroat dancers, and not even her fears of the big city. Tale as Old as Time: Fairy Tales, Mythology and Folktales Retold - a booklist for the 2020 SRP reading theme - Teen Librarian Toolbox. What a fantastic list!

Tale as Old as Time: Fairy Tales, Mythology and Folktales Retold - a booklist for the 2020 SRP reading theme - Teen Librarian Toolbox

I love fairy tale retellings, so I’ve been working on a masterlist of my own, and I have the following minor corrections, and then some additions! Corrections: East by Edith Pattou and Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George are retellings of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, not Beauty and the Beast. The stories are similar, but have different origins, and since you have East of the Sun listed later under Folktale Retellings, I thought I’d mention it. 26 YA Retellings That You Should Be Looking Forward to in 2020. A descendant of Cinderella fighting against the ball.

26 YA Retellings That You Should Be Looking Forward to in 2020

A Bolivian fairy tale inspired by current events. A mashup of Moulin Rouge and Phantom of the Opera that will absolutely enchant ✨ you. The YA Shelf – Young adult book reviews, fandom and geekery for teen readers and YA authors. Alex Flinn. Flinn was born in Glen Cove, New York and grew up in Syosset, New York and Miami, Florida.

Alex Flinn

At the age of five she started thinking about being a writer and submitted early efforts to magazines like Highlights, which did not publish them. At twelve, she moved to Palmetto Bay, Florida, a suburb of Miami, where she still lives.She had a hard time making friends at her new school, and she has said that this experience inspired much of her writing for young adults, particularly her book, Breaking Point. She graduated from Miami-Palmetto High School and was in a magnet performing arts program called PAVAC (Performing And Visual Arts Center), which inspired some of her book, Diva.

Carolyn Turgeon. Marissa Meyer – Author. Neil Gaiman. From photos to bibliographies, learn more about Neil here.

Neil Gaiman

Awards & Honors Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. Patronage Neil Gaiman is a Patron of several organizations. #1 New York Times Bestselling Author.