Leaping Beauty

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Once upon a time . . . nothing was as it seemed!

What if Sleeping Beauty were actually a frog princess, doomed to be Weeping Beauty forever? What if the Three Chickens had to outwit Goldifox? What if Cinder-Elephant lost her glass plate slipper? Then you’d have this hilarious collection of twisted fairy tales from the master of the absurd, Gregory Maguire!

“ … eight deeply and profoundly silly stories.…Puns, literary and political references, wordplay, and sly wisdom abound.…Dizzylingly funny.” “Here are amusing retellings of eight familiar fairy tales with the characters as animals, … ” “ … a delightful collection, sure to be popular with sophsticated readers.”

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