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Kate Bernheimer

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Kate Bernheimer is an author, fairy tale scholar, and editor. Her many books include the bestselling collection My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal Fairy Tale Review. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 9,868 ratings · 1,548 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gregory Maguire (Foreward), Carmen Gimenez Smith (Goodreads Author) (Collaborator) 3.57 avg rating — 4,194 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lonely Book by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author), Chris Sheban (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Brian W. Aldiss (Contributor), Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 969 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author), Nicoletta Ceccoli (Illustrator) 3.61 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author), Jake Parker (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling, Deborah Eisenberg 3.92 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author), Rikki Ducornet (Illustrator) 3.48 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold 3.83 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales: and Other Stories by Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author), Catherine Eyde (Illustrations) 3.51 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold 4.04 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Мать извела меня, папа сожрал меня (1 book)
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Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Gregory Maguire (Foreward),

Carmen Gimenez Smith (Goodreads Author) (Collaborator),

Lydia Millet (Contributor),

Joy Williams (Contributor),

Kathryn Davis (Contributor),

Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Kevin Brockmeier (Contributor),

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3.57 avg rating — 4,194 ratings

The Gold Family Tales (3 books)
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Kate Bernheimer (Goodreads Author)

3.96 avg rating — 307 ratings

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“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.”
― Kate Bernheimer

tags: fairy-tales

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“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.”
― Kate Bernheimer, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

tags: chess, drinking, love, poems, whiskey

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“Doll-less, invisible friend-less, finally more comfortable in fear than in gladness, Astrid began to live in her head. Or rather inside a small tunnel - a hole - in her head, through which she watched everything gaily depart. She nodded this head and pretended to listen. 'Bye-bye,' she would hear from within.”
― Kate Bernheimer, Horse, Flower, Bird

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