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Jenkins, Emily

Brave Red, Smart Frog: A New Book of Old Tales

96 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6558-6 $17.99
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Rohan Daniel Eason. Jenkins rewrites seven folktales--including "Snow White," "The Frog Prince," and "The Three Great Noodles"--using well-known tellers' versions (Perrault's, Grimms', et al.) as jumping-off points, but making them her own: "I wrote to bring out what's most meaningful to me in the stories." Her versions are, by turns, lyrical, unsettling, familiar, and new. A useful and imaginative collection of folklore retellings.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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