Two books this week: some fairy tale themed stories with the kids!
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
By Robin McKinley
This book is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I needed to read a retelling/reimagining of a classic fairytale for a reading challenge I am doing. I went onto my library's audiobook app and let my two eldest children pick whichever book they wanted to listen to while we were in the car or eating breakfast. This is what the kids picked.
I'm going to be honest, it's not great. It's the classic tale with Beauty having sisters and a father willing to let his daughter take his place at the enchanted castle. I probably wouldn't recommend this book.
Mikey--"I didn't like it."
Lily--- "I love it. She likes to read."
Ella Enchanted
By Gail Carson Levine
So everyone else doing the same reading challenge I am read this book as their retelling of a fairy tale. We were trying to read this book together as a family a while ago, but the family couldn't get into it, and then I couldn't find the book! I decided to see if the kids and I listened to as an audiobook if it would work better. Well it worked because the kids loved listening to it. We watched the film adaptation of the book and it's so different then the book, but the kids seemed to like it.
Mikey-- "I liked the movie better then the book."
Lily--- "I liked it but I didn't like that they made her do bad things. The book and movie were way different. I like the ending of them both. They fell in love!"
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