Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota and one of the leading folklorists and critics of children's literature in the U.S. He is the author of many books, including Fairy Tales and the Art ofSubversion, The Trials and Tribulations of Little RedRiding Hood, Don't Bet on the Prince, Breaking the MagicSpell, Creative Storytelling, and Happily Ever After, all published by Routledge.
"An enticing reexamination of cherished texts." --
KirkusReviews
"...Zipes writes with a keen sense of balance between the discourse
of the academy and the passion of the reader, between the authority
and the fan, and he sends us back to material we thought was
familiar, and makes us see it differently." -- Locus
"Jack Zipes...uncovers provocative new layers of meaning by viewing
the collection and creation of now classic tales by the Brothers
Grimm. Hans Christian Andersen and others through the lens of
history." -- The New YorkTimes
"...a fascinating social history of the uses and abuses to which
fairy tales have been put in the course of their transformation
from tales told orally by adults to adults into written (and
frequently homogenized) bedtime stories parents read to the
children. Zipes persuasively argues that fairy tales keep alive our
'longing for a better world that can be created out of our dreams
and actions'." -- New York Times Book Review"Zipes has forged a
career out of brilliant and subversive analyses of fairy
tales...Intelligent and thoughtful fun, without deconstructing the
land of Faerie into dust and ashes." -- Booklist
"An enticing reexamination of cherished texts." --
KirkusReviews
"...Zipes writes with a keen sense of balance between the discourse
of the academy and the passion of the reader, between the authority
and the fan, and he sends us back to material we thought was
familiar, and makes us see it differently." -- Locus
"Jack Zipes...uncovers provocative new layers of meaning by viewing
the collection and creation of now classic tales by the Brothers
Grimm. Hans Christian Andersen and others through the lens of
history." -- The New YorkTimes
"...a fascinating social history of the uses and abuses to which
fairy tales have been put in the course of their transformation
from tales told orally by adults to adults into written (and
frequently homogenized) bedtime stories parents read to the
children. Zipes persuasively argues that fairy tales keep alive our
'longing for a better world that can be created out of our dreams
and actions'." -- New York Times Book Review"Zipes has
forged a career out of brilliant and subversive analyses of fairy
tales...Intelligent and thoughtful fun, without deconstructing the
land of Faerie into dust and ashes." -- Booklist
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