A group of, over all, not very impressive retellings or adaptations of fables/fairy tales. The only thing most of the stories have going for them is that they're short and in color.Cinderella drives her fairy god mother away when she says she wants a different dress and shoes and a stretch limo instead of the pumpkin, the little mermaid asks for legs but forgets to specify human legs and so she keeps going back to the sea witch to make her change the type of legs, sleeping beauty snores so loudly that no one ever gets anywhere near the castle...and so on. Some were fun, some were lame. The art varied from fantastic to uninspired. Still, it was interesting to flip through and several of the stories offered were quite imaginative retellings of traditional tales. I think I would have liked to see a few longer tales (the Alice story that opened did a great job of introducing Naraghi's version of Alice and the Cheshire Cat, but I wanted to see more. It felt like a prologue.) Grecian's The Real Princess was gorgeous (art by Christian Ward) but disjointed. I loved Esquejo's interpretation of Cinderella, which I found very reminiscent of the Fables series, in art and storytelling.
What do You think about Fractured Fables (2010)?
Read almost a month ago, so I cannot remember any details. YA-friendly, however.
—Nancy
