Melanti’s Reviews > How to Fracture a Fairy Tale > Status Update

Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale - 4 Stars - This one is really cute (again).

Undine - Recently read, so skipped.

Sleeping Ugly - Cute little story, a mashup of several tales (Sleeping Beauty & Toads & Diamonds

Sun/Flight - Skipping this since I read it earlier this year

Brother Hart - 3 stars - Retelling of Little Brother, Little Sister - this is a reread

One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox, and the Dragon King - 3 Stars - Chinese tale, but done with a rather western construction. Yolen says this is what makes it fractured. Though I don't read nearly enough Chinese tales in the first place, and far too many Western so I almost would have liked a more traditional style.

Granny Rumple - Skipped, since I've read it multiple times and still remember it well - If you haven't read this one, this is fantastic. Rumpelstiltskin as a Jewish money lender and how the the prejudices that come with that impact (and create) the tale.

Happy Dens or a Day in the Old Wolves Home - Reread - Very cute. It's really 3 wolf-centric stories in one. - 3 Stars

Godmother Death - Skipped - I've read this one before and am not really in the mood to re-read it. I have enjoyed reading it previously though.

The Moon Ribbon - Reread - I just read this earlier this year and it didn't stand up to a reread as well as I'd hoped though I enjoyed it the first time around. - 3 Stars.