Once Upon a Twisted Tale

By the middle grades children know the storylines of familiar fairytales which makes them all the funnier when they veer off in different directions. Good fractured fairytales twist the child readers perspective on the story showing other possibilities. From a frog who thinks hes Sleeping Beauty to a cool-rappin fairy godmother who sends Cinderella to a Hip-Hop Ball to a boy who waits beneath a stone bridge to fool trolls Once Upon a Twisted Tale is a rollicking rhyme-filled poetry collection that can be read for sheer amusement or used in a classroom to compare original tales to the twisted tales as per Language Arts requirements.