The door in the hedge / by Robin McKinley.
Record details
- ISBN: 0688003125 :
- Physical Description: 216 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, c1981.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The stolen princess.--The princess and the frog.--The hunting of the hind.--The twelve dancing princesses. |
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Subject: | Fairy tales, American. Children's stories, American. Fairy tales. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | YA MCK (Text) | 000142612 | Teen Corner -- Fiction | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
The Door in the Hedge
Kirkus Reviews
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McKinley, who made a young novel out of ""Beauty and the Beast"" (Beauty, 1978), now offers a quartet of fairy tales--two of them original and two retellings. Her ""Twelve Dancing Princesses"" extends that already polished and felicitously shaped tale to 77 pages--gracefully, but without any gain in dimension or viewpoint. More is lost in ""The Frog Prince,"" which becomes a romantic fairy tale without the folk tale's compelling undercurrents. Of the two original stories, ""The Stolen Princess"" is the more original and distinctly charming; it begins with human children being tragically stolen by fairies and ends with a blending of a human and a fairy population. ""The Hunting of the Hind,"" about a brave prince, a brave princess, and their breaking of an evil enchantment, is accomplished but more conventionally typical. There's far more to Grimm and to the fairies than McKinley cares to acknowledge. However, girls reluctantly outgrowing the romantic fairy tales now packaged for a younger audience will find these crystal-clear and melodic renditions. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
The Horn Book Review
The Door in the Hedge
The Horn Book
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A reissue of McKinley's second book (after 'Beauty' (Harper)), this is a collection of four longish stories -- two original tales, two literary recastings of Grimm ('The Twelve Dancing Princesses' and 'The Princess and the Frog'). All are characterized by McKinley's unmistakably rich, leisurely language and by their motifs: the temptation of fairy magic versus the joyful acceptance of human mortality and the immutability of love in the face of enchantment. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.