Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws

Fairy-Tale Beasts
Herausgeber: Jones, Christine A; Schacker, Jennifer / Illustrator: Kusaite, Lina

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents lesser-known fairy tales featuring animals both wild and gentle who appear in imaginative landscapes and enjoy a host of surprising talents. With striking illustrations by Lina Kusaite and introductions by Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones, the offbeat, haunting stories in this collection are rich and surprisingly relevant, demanding creative reading by audiences aged young adult and up.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Altersempfehlung: 11 bis 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 211mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780814340691
• ISBN-10: 0814340695
• Artikelnr.: 42518067

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Schacker is associate professor of English at University of Guelph and author of National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England. Christine A. Jones is associate professor of French at the University of Utah and author of Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France. Jones and Schacker are longtime collaborators and co-editors of Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Lina Kusaite is an illustrator, designer, and art/life coach based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work has appeared in a wide range of international publications, computer games, and exhibitions, and was selected for display in Times Square as part of the see.me 2014 "seemetakeover" event. Kusaite's website is www.behance.net/cocooncharacters.