Faery Tales (Faber Children's Classics) (Hardcover) by Carol Ann Duffy

Book Description

Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy contains classic fairy tales retold by the Poet Laureate, and available for the first time in a stunning gift edition.

Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty.

Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of fairy tales. Including her beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world, and new stories of her own, this book will make you think again about once upon a time . . .

Review

There's a better take on the genre with Carol Ann Duffy's Faery Stories, illustrated with evocative formality by Tomislav Tomic. It's not everyone who can make familiar tales fresh but Duffy carries it off by leaving the stories well alone and telling them with mellifluous vigour (the one about the man left in charge of the house for the day hardly needs a feminist spin). (Evening Standard) 

Product Details

Hardcover: 368 pages

Age Range: 9 - 11 years

Publisher: Faber & Faber; Main edition (6 Nov. 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0571314279

ISBN-13: 978-0571314270

Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 3.3 x 23.4 cm

Customer reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars 2 customer ratings

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, whileRapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011 - Costa Poetry Award). She is Poet Laureate.