The Rocky and Bulwinkle show and Jon Scieszka ( The Frog Prince Continued -a retelling of The Frog Prince, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - a retelling of The Three Little Pigs, and The Stinky Cheese Man - a retelling of The Gingerbread Man ) immediately come to mind when I think of fractured fairy tales, although there are so many other incredible choices. plots, and/or points of view and been 'broken' and 'reset' to entertain and inform the 'modern' reader. These tales are "fractured" because characters, settings. While they are often fractured to be funny, there are many poignant fractured tales that have been retold to present a different political, moral, or historical angle. A Fractured Fairy Tale is a twisted, tweaked version on an older, familiar fairy tale that has been reworked to p rovide a different perspective.
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