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Learn moreWho better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series The Hamlet Chronicles.
Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes, and one very bad walrus.
Gregory Maguireย is theย New York Timesย bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includesย Wickedโthe beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Awardโwinning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion pictureโSon of a Witch,ย A Lion Among Men, andย Out of Oz.ย His series Another Day continues the story of Oz withย The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor,ย andย The Witch of Maracoor,ย and his other novels includeย A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee,ย After Alice,ย Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,ย Lost,ย andย Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children includeย Cress Watercress,ย Leaping Beauty,ย andย Egg & Spoon,ย winner of aย Boston GlobeโHorn Bookย Award Honor.ย He lives in New England and France.
Gregory Maguireย is theย New York Timesย bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includesย Wickedโthe beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Awardโwinning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion pictureโSon of a Witch,ย A Lion Among Men, andย Out of Oz.ย His series Another Day continues the story of Oz withย The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor,ย andย The Witch of Maracoor,ย and his other novels includeย A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee,ย After Alice,ย Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,ย Lost,ย andย Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children includeย Cress Watercress,ย Leaping Beauty,ย andย Egg & Spoon,ย winner of aย Boston GlobeโHorn Bookย Award Honor.ย He lives in New England and France.