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Leaping Beauty

And Other Animal Fairy Tales

By Gregory Maguire

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| Hardcover | 9780060564179

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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series the Hamlet Chronicles.

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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series the Hamlet Chronicles.

Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes, and one very bad walrus.

Accompanying these hilarious stories are delightfully witty pictures by Chris L. Demarest, master of black line and droll humor.

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  • Leaping Beauty By Gregory Maguire

    Gregory Maguire's fractured fairy tales Leaping Beauty is a children's book that parents will almost certainly grab before their kids will. Why? Purely because of the star power of its author, Gregory Maguire, an endlessly entertaining and inventive ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

  • LEAPING BEAUTY: And Other Animal Fairy Tales by Gregory Maguire

    LEAPING BEAUTY: And Other Animal Fairy Tales by Gregory Maguire HarperCollins ISBN: 0060564180 Ages 8-12 208 pages Although Gregory Maguire has been writing children's books for years, he is probably best known for his recent adult retellings of The ... (read full critics)

    kidsreads published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 208 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0060564172
  • ISBN-13: 9780060564179
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Others
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