Snow White
I recently finished reading Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors". A collection of short stories in his signature style. One of the stories that I really liked was the one about Snow White, entitled "Snow, Glass, Apples". It's told from the view point of the Queen. In this version, the Queen is the good one, whereas Snow White is a blood-sucking little monstrosity who practically sucked the life out of her father, the King. The story is basically the same, with all the salient plot points, like the Queen's "magic mirror", cutting out Snow White's heart, the 7 dwarfs, the prince, and finally the Queen's demise. It's a refreshing change to the classic. I learnt something new too. "Ballock Sack" == "Scrotum". Kewl. Do read it.
Since I'm on the subject of fairytales and such, Hoodwinked is also a good rewriting of the classic "Little Red Riding Hood". Much humour here. The story is retold 4 times from the prespective of Red, The Wolf, Granny and the Woodsman.
Still, my all time favourite has got to be Hans Christian Anderson's Little Claus And Big Claus. The humour is very dark. Death is mentioned so non-chalantly in the story, like how Big Claus is tricked by Little Claus into killing his grandmother (whacked her head with an axe) to sell for a bushel of money. These are the morals we should teach our kids. A must read!
Since I'm on the subject of fairytales and such, Hoodwinked is also a good rewriting of the classic "Little Red Riding Hood". Much humour here. The story is retold 4 times from the prespective of Red, The Wolf, Granny and the Woodsman.
Still, my all time favourite has got to be Hans Christian Anderson's Little Claus And Big Claus. The humour is very dark. Death is mentioned so non-chalantly in the story, like how Big Claus is tricked by Little Claus into killing his grandmother (whacked her head with an axe) to sell for a bushel of money. These are the morals we should teach our kids. A must read!
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