Review: Finally! A fairytale worth telling.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2011
I can't say exactly what drove me to purchase this book, but I'm so glad I did. As a little girl I had of course heard every fairytale out there: the princesses were always beautiful, the princes always dashing and the endings always fair. And I have to say, it warped my sense of self and logic.I grew up believing that only certain people deserved certain things and that I was not one of them. I grew up believing the world was fair to those whom deserve it - and that's a lie. Everyone deserves to be happy - but the world is anything but fair. As a parent, I have struggled to find a balance in teaching my daughter these things.This book lays it all bare. For every fat, crippled, poor, or homely person who has ever become 'the funny one' or 'the rude one' in order to cloak the hurt inside, this fairytale is long overdue.I've always enjoyed the story of 'The Beauty and the Beast', but truth be told, it has always been flawed. It teaches that if you're a good person and want something badly enough, things will magically change and become 'right' or 'just' and that simply isn't true. Life isn't fair and sometimes that starts right at birth, but you have to love yourself in order to allow others to love you. You can be fat, crippled, poor, or homely and someone, the right someone, will love you and look at you like life is worth living because you exist. THAT is a lesson worth learning.