James Finn Garner

Offers humorous revisions of supposedly outmoded fairytales, such as "The Duckling That Was Judged on Its Personal Merit and Not on Its Physical Appearance"

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time

Kirsten Simkiss

Following on the prior book, this one seemed to try to cover fairytales that had previously been left out of the first book. Why he simply did not encompass all of them in the same book I am unsure, but he did decently at it. While it wasn't as clever, I thought, as the first book, it was quite interesting how he altered stories. (I definitely would not have predicted turning the prince in the Little Mermaid into a prawn. But there you have it!) 

I thought it odd that the princesses' names were changed in a few stories, which I thought was unnecessary. I also thought it weird, again, that he used "womyn" and "persuns" and then would use perfectly modern terms.

Another enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness. 13 line drawings.

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

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