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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

by James Finn Garner
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Classic fairy tales reimagined with modern sensibilities.

If you appreciate humor and satire wrapped in the familiar blanket of bedtime stories, this one's for you. James Finn Garner takes on the old tales and gives them a new twist, aligning them with contemporary values. You might find it a refreshing change to revisit the characters you thought you knew in a context that challenges traditional norms.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

by James Finn Garner
$12.90 Now $6.90 Save 47% more
ISBN: 9780285632233
Authors: James Finn Garner
Publisher: Souvenir Pr Ltd
Date of Publication: 1994-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Childrens Classics, Chapter Books, Young Readers
Related Topics: Fantasy, Humor, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 7916 readers)

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Anyone who is in tune with the times knows that Snow White took refuge with seven vertically challenged men, that Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, that Goldilocks was a rogue biologist who specialised in the study of anthropomorphic bears, that the Frog Prince was not a prince at all, but a middle-aged, balding real estate developer with plans to drain the pond, and that the Emperor was not naked, but merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle.You didn't know that? You mean that you or your children were lulled to sleep by classic bedtime stories that are discriminatory, prejudiced and demeaning to witches, animals, giants, dwarfs, goblins and fairies everywhere? Now at last you can remedy this cultural defect by reading Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, and find out what really happened when Jack climbed the beanstalk, when Cinderella went to the ball and when the wolf tried to blow down the houses of the Three Little Pigs. After all, if you were brought up on all that sexist, racist, sizeist, ethnocentrist reading matter, then you most certainly need to be made aware of the dangers, in these sensitive modern times, of expressing any kind of opinion at all.
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Classic fairy tales reimagined with modern sensibilities.

If you appreciate humor and satire wrapped in the familiar blanket of bedtime stories, this one's for you. James Finn Garner takes on the old tales and gives them a new twist, aligning them with contemporary values. You might find it a refreshing change to revisit the characters you thought you knew in a context that challenges traditional norms.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.