When Rapunzel was born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her horrified mother sent her away with the sorceress to an uncertain future.Īfter sixteen years of raising Rapunzel as her own child, Melisande reveals that she has another daughter, Rue, who was cursed by a wizard years ago and needs Rapunzel’s help. There’s something- maybe someone-waiting for me out there and it won’t find me if I’m trapped here TOWERING above it all (source: ).īefore Rapunzel’s birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Mama isn’t around, I plan my escape, even if it’s just for a little while. I’ve also had the strangest dreams of a beautiful green-eyed boy. Recently, my hair has started to grow rapidly and it is now long enough to reach the bottom of the tower from my window. But I know that no one will come to save me-my life is not a fairy tale after all. My only companions, besides Mama, are my books – great adventures, mysteries, and romances, that I long to make my reality. Mama, who isn’t my mother, has kept me hidden away for eight long years. I watch the birds fly below, the clouds float above, and the tall, green forest stretch to places I might never see. And then, I’ll tell you how I became perfectly beastly (source: ). I’ll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and a perfect life. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I’ll tell you. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. And I’ll stay this way forever – ruined – unless I can break the spell.
You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature who walks upright – a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. Now, just when Pearl and James need each other most, bewitching magic and hints about Pearl’s past threaten to tear them apart…forever (source: ). One very special, secret companion: Prince James.īut their friendship is shaken when trouble erupts in the kingdom a conspiracy against the royal family combines with an evil enchantment from beneath the sea. As all the other girls her age find husbands, she has only one friend to ease her loneliness. Pearl grows from a mysterious child into an unusual young woman, not always welcomed in the village. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long about where she came from or notice her silver hair, usually pale skin, and wide, dark blue eyes. In a quiet fishing village seventeen years ago, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea. That night the fairy tale of Cinderella and her pumpkin carriage is spun, and the next morning her prince comes to collect her (source: wikipedia). While at the ball, Ruth does the unthinkable out of jealousy and love of Clara and Master. Iris secretly helps Clara get to the ball and the prince immediately falls in love with her. Margrethe makes Clara and Ruth go to the ball in the hopes of making the prince fall in love with Iris. While caring for her sisters and keeping the peace between Clara and Margarethe, Iris develops a painter’s eye and spends time studying under a local painter known as The Master, and his apprentice, Caspar. Having fled from the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England to Haarlem, the Netherlands, Iris is slightly at odds with the world and often contemplates the value of beauty and ugliness. The story follows Iris, the plain younger daughter of Margarethe Fisher, as she takes care of her mentally challenged older sister Ruth and her stepsister Clara.
FAIRY GODMOTHER TYCOON FRACTURED TALES MOVIE
In 2002, the book was adapted into a TV movie of the same name directed by Gavin Millar. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Gregory Maguire)Ĭonfessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel by Gregory Maguire, retelling the tale of Cinderella through the eyes of one of her “ugly stepsisters”. Her choice will lead La Cendrillon and Raoul toward their destiny - a choice that will challenge their understanding of family, test their loyalty and courage, and, ultimately, teach them who they are (source: ) When an invitation to a great ball reaches the family, La Cendrillon’s new stepmother will make a decision with far-reaching effects. The lady has married La Cendrillon’s father, and her arrival changes their lives. The girl, La Cendrillon, and the boy, Raoul, pass sixteen years in the servants’ care until one day a very fine lady arrives with her two daughters. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to be raised alongside her, a boy whose identity he does not reveal.
His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name.
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