Over on YA Highway's Road Trip Wednesday
[link] , they had a great prompt:
In honor of this month's Bookmobile book, Marissa Meyer's CINDER, name a fable or story you'd like to see a retelling of. If you're feeling creative, come up with a premise of your own!I recently picked up our Grimm's fairytale book and started reading through it. The very first one is The Golden Bird.
[link] I just loved it. It's all about the prohibitions–don't go to sleep under the tree. Don't put the golden bird in the golden cage, but in the wooden one. Don't put the gold saddle on the horse. Don't let the princess say goodbye to her parents. All of these prohibitions are delivered by a talking fox to the youngest prince, who nevertheless manages to botch it most of the time.
I just love fairytale prohibition stories. I always wonder, why? Does the wooden cage and the old saddle represent humility in the face of grandeur? What was wrong with that dang princess? Why couldn't all of these castles (who were in riding distance of each other) swapped around their own dang golden items?
I've been tossing around an idea for a middle-grade series. I know who the characters are, I just wasn't sure what kinds of adventures they should have. I was thinking I'd like to mess with fairies, then I started looking at other books. Fairies are waaaay overdone right now. But fairytales with talking foxes and golden horses? Not quite so much! Especially not with the spin I'd give it.
So yeah. What fairytale would you retell, or like to see redone?
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To be honest, I'm sick and tired of Cinderella retellings. There's too many of them already. Though there's one that I'm willing to give a chance: Ash by Melinda Lo. That's supposed to be good.
I'm also fond of the Robber Bridegroom, a dark fairy-tale where the heroine survives with her wits.
And yes, why are there so many Cinderella/Snow White retellings? Why doesn't anybody do the Arabian Nights (who isn't Sonic)? There's the one story in there about the girl and the four brothers who were stolen from the king and queen and birth and raised as paupers, and the brothers go have adventures and the sister bails them out, and finally they get turned to black stones while climbing that one hill because they looked back, so the sister has to go do it and turn them back into men ... I LOVE that story!
I've always been fond of "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" for some reason, too.
Although I would probably prefer it in book form. The novel 'Beastly' was great as a book, but Hollywood ruined it when they turned it into a film.
Some reasons are because fairy tales have used my favorite animals and gave them a bad image. I love wolves, I love foxes, (I also love hyenas and bats, but I don't know of any fairy tales with them) and it kinda upset me that they were portrayed negatively in fairy tales. Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, The Fox and the Wolf, etc. so I kinda wished there were fairy tales that portrayed them positively.
Unless there are fairy tales that portrayed those animals in a positive light that I'm forgetting. I love it when mostly misunderstood animals are portrayed positively (e.g., "Alpha and Omega" that was positive about wolves, your story "Daylight Savings" displayed a velociraptor in a good-guy role)
Oh, here's another reason... I HATE the "damsel in distress" cliche, I prefer tough-as-nails women XD (I got a female character that's a body-builder LOL)
Have you ever read Oscar Wilde's fairytales? He lampoons a lot of tropes, as well as some really cutting social commentary. (And some of his stories had me sobbing hysterically, like the one about the giant with the garden.)