Fairy tales for modern readers (Weinstein)

Do you like fairy tales or enjoy reading them to a youngster in your life?  Do you like stories in which girls and women are strong characters with independent lives?  If the answer is yes, you might enjoy reading this book with a grade school child that you know.  The author has taken well-known fairy tale heroines and given them lives that have more roles than just princess/bride.  From detectives to environmentalists, these girls want to accomplish things.

I very much enjoyed the concept of the book.  At times though, I think that the book was a little too heavy handed.  On  the other hand, the author is trying to make up for years of a certain kind of fairy tale, so I can see where this is a matter of taste.  I would give this book three stars although others might rate it more highly.

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