Clever Gretchen

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles and outwit the devil. These stories are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.

Poor Hans marries the mayor's daughter after promising that in seven years he will go off with an evil dwarf unless he is able to pose a question the dwarf cannot answer.

Presents retellings of European folktales that feature heroines who fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, and rescue all sorts of friends and relatives from distress

Do you remember when story time was magical, enchanted, and filled with wonder and amazement? Many psychologists and spiritual teachers have commented on the great value of revisiting folktales in our later years. Within this little book of tales, you may find favoritesfavorite stories, favorite characters, and better yet, favorite parts of yourself. A throng of magical characters, moving themes, and meaningful archetypesthey just naturally draw one in. A folktale character getting their groove on can be an irresistible thing. So-called childrens literature does not play second fiddle to other literature. In fact, it holds the very same powers. It transports us to different times and places and to different times and places within our own psyche. Partake, dear reader. Each story is a journey within.

Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother. Kirkus—Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2019 The Verge—New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Check Out in June Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Seventy- nine tales that show how riddles pervade storytelling worldwide

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“One of the most haunting stories I have ever read about the price we pay for the secrets we keep” from the award-winning author of How Will I Know You? (Julia Glass, national bestselling author). The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with her son ,who’s punishing her for withholding his father’s true identity from him. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties, increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over the legacy she will bestow upon her son. Portraying the most intense and shameful moments of motherhood, and the things we leave unsaid even to those we want most to hear them, The Gretchen Question is a celebration of one woman’s private reckoning with the source of her life’s most profound pain―as well as its greatest pleasure. “A powerful and emotional ride with disorienting, satisfying turns and a stunning end. Treadway is masterful.” —Lily King, New York Times–bestselling author “Roberta’s . . . emotional journey is captured beautifully. Treadway powerfully captures one woman’s attempt to live a meaningful existence despite all that she has endured.” —Publishers Weekly “A thoughtful, and thought-provoking, meditation on love, loss, and legacy.” —Kirkus Reviews