num_pages: 224
description: A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magicwhile another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards owls trolls and a feisty sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaids voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale. In these eight stories and twenty-three poems World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault the Brothers Grimm Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing sometimes hilarious always lyrical the works gathered in SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives.
language: English
title: Snow White Learns Witchcraft
publisher: Mythic Delirium Books