Snow White Learns Witchcraft

by Theodora Goss

[HekArtemis]

I really enjoyed these retellings. There are a few longer (in audio between 20 and 40 minutes each) stories, and heaps of smaller poems/snippets that range from 1 minute to 5 minutes each. The stories and poems range from cute and lovely to sad but sweet to dark and sometimes creepy, so it's a pretty good range. Not all of them have happy endings, not all of them are based around romances. All of them, imo, were fantastic.

I can't really say which were my favourites because there were so many small ones (also it is not easy to flip through an audio book to find the titles of them). But I really loved one of the early short ones which focuses on the wife of the prince who woke Sleeping Beauty, it was quite creepy. And the last longish one about the Nightingale was so sad and beautiful. The Red Riding Hood one was interesting to say the least, and the one about the Idiot and the cat was lovely.

Nah I just loved all of them.

(Some of these are not really suitable for telling to children, in case you were wondering - but some of them absolutely are. If you're considering this book for your kids, I would suggest a text based one and pick and choose which ones to share).