| Title | : | Fractured Fairy Tales |
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| ISBN | : | 0553099809 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780553099805 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published January 28, 1997 |
Fractured Fairy Tales Reviews
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Remember the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon? Between "episodes" you would see a 2 min. fairy tale. Those fairy tales have been written down, and are totally entertaining.
Rocky and Bullwinkle aren't on TV anymore, but at least my children can enjoy the fractured fairy tales that I enjoyed! -
As part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Jay War produced 91 cartoons between 1953 and 1964 in a series called Fractured Fairy Tales, humorous retellings of classic fairy tales narrated by Edward Everett Horton and written by the staff writers for the show. This book, written by A. J. Jacobs in 1997, takes 25 of those cartoons and adapts them as short fairy tales. Some references are updated for a new audience but he is fairly faithful to the scripts and does well at turning them into stories. While Jacobs' retellings are funny and faithful to the originals, they have a limited appeal now that all of the original cartoons are available on DVD or YouTube.
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Yes, it's the same ones as those on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. I was a devoted follower for many years of my youth--that and Yogi Bear are truly the best Saturday morning cartoons ever made although Phineas and Ferb would probably be third if (a) it had been around back then and (b) it was a Saturday morning cartoon. Saturday mornings were special, special in a kids-only kind of way that the young whippersnappers of today will never comprehend. If you weren't there when the cartoons were there, you missed 'em. Period.
The book is fun, of course, but only one of the tales made me laugh out loud. A few chuckles, for sure. And best of all, the fairy illustrations. -
A solid 4 stars out of 5.
I really enjoyed it! It's not a hard read and nothing is taken seriously at all. About half of the stories end in glorious puns, which is wonderful for me. I love puns. The worse they are and the harder I've walked into them, the better! My only complaint is that they had multiple versions of the same stories in the collection but didn't differentiate authors, if the authors were different. They also were a bit more ridiculous than I loved. Fractured indeed. I had a good laugh about a knight not breaking any laws listed in the Geneva Convention while fighting a dragon. It was silly and it caught me totally off guard. -
Here are some old favorites and odd fables as told through the warped vision of Jay Ward. For those of you who remember the animated Rocky and Bullwinkle (a flying squirrel in an aviator helmet and his dippy moose friend, respectively), these fairy tales were wonderfully wacky interludes between their comic adventures fighting Boris and Natasha as they schemed for Fearless Leader. Diverting stuff and not necessarily for the kiddies.
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My dad gave me this for Christmas and I'm glad he did - it was the right book to read on the planes coming back from Minneapolis to Los Angeles: short, not serious, entertaining and therefore distracting. I just finished them up, and they work just as well in the book as they did on the TV show, which I loved. I remember when this book came out, I was at the Barnes and Noble at the Grove and I wrote this book and several others down as ones I would like someday. Where that list is now, no idea, but I'm happy to have this come back into my life.
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If I could have I would have given this book less than one star...It was awful! I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Please DO NOT read this book.
I painfully pushed through this so that I could honestly review it and it was the worst hour of my life. -
I seemed to have missed the animated version of these on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. These made me laugh out loud. Great short stories of taking the fairy tales we all know and turning them on their heads.
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This was so hilarious! Full of puns and jokes that may go over some kids' heads, the book itself stylistically looks more of a middle grade novel, but can be easily enjoyed by anyone of any age. Each story had me rolling in laughter, and I have never found a book as enjoyable as this.
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Rember the fairy episodes from Rocky and Bullwinkle...... do ya??
Fun book, good beach read...... -
Really funny. Really good. Really wicked.
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How funny is it that this is the same author that wrote The Year of Living Biblically! I had no idea.
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A true classic!
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HEHEHE HAHAHA Geez, these stories sure were funny "back in the day", and they still are today.
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who didn't love these stories on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show?
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All the classics from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show!
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Not quite as fun as watching the cartoons, but almost. I'm so glad Jacobs decided to record them for posterity.
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Of course, I loved it.
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Thank you to my cousin
Julie for the gift of fairy tales! -
The stories are short and funny! Good for a small read but not what you would look for unless you want simple and easy to follow short stories.
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Fun little book. I would love for the author to be a baby sitter. I can just picture him with little kids giggling over these stories.
