Henry Carter Hull

On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.

A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter,...

"In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations." The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields. Armed with a wealth of methodologies, theoretical concepts, and sophisticated paradigms of case-studies analyses of the past, these scholars expand the field to new and...

"Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale poses the question, what if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince? Following her beloved mother's death, the kingdom falls into the hands of Snow White's stepmother, commonly referred to as 'the Evil Queen' by those she rules. Snow keeps her head down at the castle, hoping to make the best of her situation. But when new information about her parents resurfaces and a plot to kill her goes haywire, everything changes for...

The author of Empire of the Senseless gives the Dickens classic a punk twist, setting it in 1980s New York City. Kathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious-as a rebel and a groundbreaker-when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens's classic-splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat's sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts-alongside Acker's...

The last time this happened was when the boys dug up some mouse litter in the exercise equipment room. What are you doing this time? I don't know why boys and girls that age are so interested in the little animals that are in school. Sometimes a feral cat running outside the window can make her chirp for a long time.

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help -- the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles...

In this humorous adaptation of the Snow White tale Jo Bright excels at building bots which angers the queen--so Jo and her dragon friend, Henry, and their seven bots come up with a plan to banish the jealous queen to the Moon, take over the queen's storerooms, filled with bot-building equipment.

The hilarious, classic folksong about domestic rivalry is brought to life in this vibrantly illustrated picture book. Father Grumble believes he is more capable at performing household chores than his wife is. She agrees to go into the field to plow if he does her work at home and in the farmyard. Father Grumble encounters so many domestic challenges that he must confess it is more difficult to run a household than to plow a field. Based on the 15th-century...

Brimming with danger, love, and betrayal, Tom Grass's electrifying heist thriller is a gripping reimagining of Charles Dickens's classic Oliver Twist. Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London-whose unique skills are matched only by his infamous talent as an urban climber. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows...