World Famous Comics: Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories
By: Jane Yolen Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Magic Carpet Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: March 01, 2001 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls." In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at hear, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother's homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan's troops.
Familiar Stories Tweaked This book contains a series of short fantasy stories about young adults in very strange situations. A new version of Alice needs to find someone to defend her from the Jabberwock, a nightmare creature in Wonderland. Mandy Jane's mother has awakened from death as a vampire, who begins to terrorize their town. Harlyn sees fairies but her aunt worries she is just crazy, like her mother.
A teenaged girl, in the process of moving into her grandmother's house, picks up a strange egg that hatches something incredible. Robert goes after the sea monster that killed his two brothers. Zena, a girl of the future, goes "wilding" in Central Park, which seems like such fun until she comes across a dead body.
Hilary thought the ritual she went through while babysitting the twins was silly, but they insisted it kept her safe from what haunts their house. Could that really be true? Brancy thinks the memory of her dead father could help to ward off the danger in their compost pile.
The Billy Goats Gruff are shown to be the villains they really are. Aliens have landed in Brandon's town, and he thinks he can figure out how to get rid of them.
A boy is born dead, but his father brings him back to life. As he grows, he is only comfortable in wintertime. Darla ends up in Never-Never Land where she finds out that, for a girl, living there isn't much fun at all.
These stories are all very strange, and some are really well told. They take fairy tales, well known children's stories and urban legends, and tweak them into something more interesting.
Awesome Short stories a great for teachers to read in down time or parents as bedtime stories. A few stories can be a little scary for some kids.
Wonderful book, highly reccommend!
think again Many of these stories are disturbingly morbid and unpleasant. If you are a parent, please look it over before letting your child read it.
Amazing! Defently one of the best books I've ever read. It contains 12 different stories that are happy, sad, and some were downright scary.
Something for everyone Rather like a "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears" for a younger audience, this book is for anyone who enjoys a good fractured faerytale or stories from the fantasy realm. It has everything, from Yolen's continuation of Alice in Wonderland to the sad story of an Appalachian girl whose mother has returned to life as a vampire. While stories like "The Bridge's Complaint", a twist on the old Billy Goats Gruff story (told by an intellectual bridge) and "Lost Girls," a feminist version of Peter Pan, gave me a good laugh, stories like "Mama Gone," the vampire story, and "Bolundeers" were both sad and heartwarming. "Sea Dragon of Fife" was a tale of legendary proportions and "Wilding" added a bit of sci-fi to the bunch. You won't put the book down until you've read ALL of the stories--many times. And it's by Jane Yolen, it can't be BAD! Get it and be sure to read "Harlyn's Fairy" and "Winter's King," my personal favourites.
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