Also in Puss in Boots news, promotional material for Gail Carson Levine's A Tale of Two Castles is starting to appear around the internet. From my understanding, the idea that sparked the story was a Puss in Boots retelling, although Levine admits it might be hard to spot at this point. HarperCollins has a book trailer:

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Dreamworks is apparently not quite done with the world of Shrek, returning to the scene with Puss, voiced by Antonio Banderas. No more than a teaser trailer so far:



Due in theaters November 4, 2011.

You may remember that I posted a review of Sarah Beth Durst's Into the Wild a while back. I had a chance to read her sequel, Out of the Wild, as well, and it held up to the standards of her first book very well.


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Just wanted to point out that all 26 episodes of Shelley Duvall's Fairie Tale Theatre are now available on hulu, here:

http://www.hulu.com/shelley-duvalls-faerie-tale-theatre


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The newest collection of Fairy Tale rewrites from Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, comes to you highly recommended by me! :)


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I know someone posted the poem by Neil Gaiman, "Instructions", here a while back. It's still up at Endicott Studios, here, if you haven't read it. (You really really should!)

Well, Neil Gaiman just announced on his blog that he and Charles Vess are collaborating to make a picture book out of the poem (as Blueberry Girl was so well received ( Read more... )

spookyhandle made a mention of the wonderful No Rest for the Wicked webcomic some time ago, but having finally caught up with the storyline, I really really must recommend it all over again.

It's about Princess November, of Princess and the Pea fame, searching for the moon, which has gone missing, because she will not be able to sleep until the moon returns ( Read more... )

My friend skullx has a goal to do a quick pen sketch every day this year, so when he asked for some ideas I tossed him some fairy tales to see what he'd come up with. This is the first of my ideas he's used but I really like the interpretation:


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So I've been ... questing?... for other uses of Puss in Boots in literature and pop culture (as you may have noticed). One of the few other stories I've come up with that makes use of the story without just being a retelling of the story is Amy Gordon's Midnight MagicFrom http://www. ( Read more... )