This is a list of Young Adult and Middle Grade fairy tale retellings.
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message 1: by Milly (new)

Milly Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast was terrible! I'm amazed you liked it haha! By the way, thanks for making this list. I love this genre :)


message 2: by Princess Debz (new)

Princess Debz Actually, I haven't ever read it yet! I just created this list for a reading challenge I'm hosting on my blog, trying to list as many retellings as I could think of.


message 3: by Milly (new)

Milly Bravo. Have added many a few to my to-read list! Cheerz v much.
PS, don't bother reading it.


message 4: by Jack (new)

Jack Gail Carson Levine is the queen of retelling fairy tales!


message 5: by Sara (new)

Sara Hey, I loved Beauty: A Retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast !!!!!! I've read it multiple times. It's a new and interesting way of telling the same old same old story. Princess Debz I think you should still read it so you can decide for yourself if you like it or not. Because if you don't then you may be missing out on a great story. If you don't like it then you can always just not read it again.


message 6: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Apr 15, 2017 10:48AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (#96) is not a retelling, strictly speaking. The author didn't see is as a retelling anyway.

And can Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (#300) be considered a retelling?


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