{"id":12990,"date":"2022-05-25T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T14:12:00","slug":"see-them-in-new-ways-straw-into-gold-fairy-tales-re-spun-by-hilary-mckay-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12990","title":{"rendered":"See them in new ways – STRAW INTO GOLD: FAIRY TALES RE-SPUN, by Hilary McKay (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Never insult fairy godmothers,
kindness makes the path easier,
curses can flip to blessings\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fairy tales that we’ve heard over and over can be retold, modernized, role-switched, or set in other lands, yet we recognize their core stories <\/a>every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collection of “Fairy Tales Re-Spun” charmingly presents a double-handful of familiar tales using non-classic viewpoints, like the new teacher whose writing assignment at a backwoods school results in “What I Did in the Holidays and Why Hansel’s Jacket is So Tight (by Gretel, age 10)” – truth or fiction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinderella finds a friend in Buttons and helps him shine boots for the prince who’s turned away from royal society to tend “The Roses Around the Palace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stuffy bureaucrat is more concerned about keeping his town tidy (and his coffers full) than paying the agreed price to that motley-looking Piper for luring away all those horrid rats\u2026 so very quiet now at “The Fountain in the Market Square.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy these ten fairy tale retellings, including lesser-known stories “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” and “The Swan Brothers” (also the basis for A Rush of Wings<\/em>, by Laura E. Weymouth that I recently recommended here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which fairy tale is your favorite?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Straw Into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun \/ Hilary McKay, illustrated by Sarah Gibb. Margaret K. McElderry Books, hardcover 2019, paperback 2020. [author site<\/a>] [illustrator bio<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Personal copy; cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never insult fairy godmothers, kindness makes the path easier, curses can flip to blessings\u2026 The fairy tales that we’ve heard over and over can be retold, modernized, role-switched, or set in other lands, yet we recognize their core stories every time. This collection of “Fairy Tales Re-Spun” charmingly presents a double-handful of familiar tales using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,52,77,19],"tags":[90,272,22,75,5,42,16,18,44,383,39,38,49,111,31,193,15,198,217,9,21,57,268,35,6,28,78],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fairy-tales","category-fantasy","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-animals","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-coping","tag-crafts","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-garden","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-retelling","tag-royalty","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-travel","tag-villains","tag-witches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13030,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/13030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}