Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces is adult literature that satirizes classic children's folk tales, fables and fairy tales into more mature presentations featuring adult language, content and humor. Author Jay Dubya goes right to work retelling Aesop's Fables into "A Sap's Fables." Adult renditions of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," "The Wind and the Sun," "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," and "The Rabbit and the Turtle" are all cleverly portrayed. Other famous fables rewritten into adult accounts are "The Fox and the Crow," "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg," "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The Lark and Its Offspring," "The Miller, His Son and the Jackass," "Belling the Cat" and finally "The Dog, the Fox and the Stream." Folk and Fairy Tales from England, France, Germany and Russia are also imaginatively assaulted and converted into adult-oriented stories. Jay Dubya thoroughly corrupts "The Three Little Piglet Brothers," "The Flashing Elves," "The Golden Goose's Goosing Curse," "The Notorious Sleeping Beauty" and "Petite Red Riding Hood." Other classic stories that are not saved from degeneration are "Jack's Magnificent Beanstalk," "Hansel and Gretel Dumkoff," "Little Ebony Sambo," "Rapunzel's Draping Hair" and "Tom Thumb's History." Finally, the author completely corrupts into adult parody rewrites "Peter W. and the Wolf," "The Rumpelstiltskin No-Spin Zone," "Beauty and the Beastly Beast," "Cinderella's Fella'" and the classic folktale "Flaky Snow White and the Seven Midgdwarfs." Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces is Jay Dubya's twenty-first book. This book is definitely not written for or to be read by children.

Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces, Part II is adult literature satirizing classic children's stories and the work is written in the spirit of its predecessor Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces. The new work FFFF&FF Part II features adult language, adult content and adult satirical humor. Author Jay Dubya goes right to work corrupting familiar children's stories The Three Scruffy Gruffy Billy Goats, The Gay Tailor Who Became King, Petey Rabbit, Thumbilisa Thumbilina, The Emperor's Invisible Clothes and Goldie Lox and the Three Ursas. Several British legends are re-invented with hilarious adult renditions of St. George Slays the Dragon and Arthur Becomes King of England. Greek myths are imaginatively sabotaged with comical presentations of Daphne's Daft Daffiness, Bellerophon's Marathon Adventure, Baucis and Philemon, Psyche and Stupid Cupid and Atalantas's Last Race. Other popular children's stories that are put into adult parodies are Pinocchio's Personality Problem, The Wolf and the Seven Lame Lambs, The Sorcerer's Un-resourceful Apprentice and Peter Pansy Does Kensington Gardens. Finally Author Jay Dubya presents very amusing renditions of the classic tales Alice Visits Wonderland and Aladdin's Little Lamp. Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces, Part II is definitely not written for or to be read by children.

“This collection is Jane Yolen at her best. This is magic.”—Patricia C. Wrede, author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles Fantasy icon Jane Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic, Briar Rose, Sister Emily’s Lightship) is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

Poisoned Apples. Wicked Curses. Red Cloaks. Kickass Women. Fairy tales are going back to their dark & twisted roots with these brand new short story retellings. Venture into new stories & fight old foes alongside defiant & refreshing heroines written for the 21st century. These damsels don't need a prince to come & save them... Shorts by various authors including: Jay R. Wolf, Des Fonoimoana, Christiana Matthews, R.L. Davennor, S.M. Mitchell, Elora Burrell, Rebecca Clark, Lisette Marshall, & Epi Wildes

This Fractured Fairy Tales series updates "once upon a time" to "now." From Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty, each story celebrates the actions of boys and girls-actions that can have their own kind of magic. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

A hardcover fairy tale anthology that reimagines classic stories for a more modern and nuanced age.

Fractured fairy tales and humorous urban fantasy! Escape into lighthearted fantasy with this laugh out loud collection of short stories. These stories take the fairy tale tropes of princesses, dragons, and witches and turns them on their head. These stories include: Princesses Do Not Breathe Fire What's a princess to do when she inconveniently has 'green eczema, ' breathes fire, eats annoying court jesters, and behaves in an 'unprincessly' manner? To solve these woes, this princess goes on a quest to cure her dragon nature. Tooth Fairy Experiments What does science homework look like for a troll child? Instead of dissecting frogs and mice, troll dissect fairies-or they are supposed to anyway. This troll child has other ideas. Greener on the Other Side Prince Charming knows he is meant to be a human prince, not a frog. Only if he can outsmart a witch and her vicious cat will he be able to use the witch's spell book to turn himself into the hero he knows he is meant to me. The Savior of Dragondom An overlooked dragon is outshined by the supposedly heroic dragon rider who has let his celebrity status go to his head. The dragon would prefer to eat her rider, but she desperately needs him to fulfill a prophecy to save her people. The Problem with Princesses A dragon with a knight fetish sets out on a quest to eat a ball full of princesses to offset the princess surplus in the land, only to change her mind halfway through her adventure. Find out what this dragon does with the princess she meets. Five Tips to Slay a Unicorn Unicorns are plaguing the land. Learn these tips to put a stop to the great horned ones!br> Fifty Scales of Grey A dragon's knight fetish causes her some serious problems, especially when her intended love interests would rather slay her than kiss her. Find out what happens when a princess comes to her rescue. (Though this is a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey, there is no sex or R-rated language in the story-only laugh out loud humor.) Patchwork Selkie A selkie without her sealskin, not content to suffer the same fate as others of her kind, finds a way to solve her problem. These are sweet and empowering stories about self-acceptance, taking place in the same world as the Chronicles of Forget-Me-Not Forest Series. Similar in humor to Shrek and Disenchanted, these tales are sure to delight! Transport yourself into these fairy tales with twists.

Pieces of Eight, Part III is a collection of eightunique short stories/novellas that complement theeight appearing in Pieces of Eight and the eightnovellas represented in Pieces of Eight, Part II andPieces of Eight, Part IV. "An Attic Television" and "The Timeless Sports Car"are paranormal tales having '50s themes; whereas, "Time Vigilantes" and "Youth Revisited" lean moretoward the science fiction side of popular literature. "A Literary Dispute" and "The Better of Two Lives"mix elements of science fiction and paranormalexperience. "The Hotel Delaware" and "The Rip VanWinkle Club" are essentially fantasy stories thatincorporate science fiction and paranormal elements intheir presentations.