A story to eat with a mandarin
Subtitle: Phredde and the Temple of Gloom
By: Jackie French
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780207197819
Subjects: Fairy tales; Parodies, imitations; Fairies; Fiction; Humorous stories
Other titles: Phredde and the Temple of Gloom
Description: A gentle lambasting of traditional fairy stories. (For example, Snow White is poisoned by an Apple Macintosh computer and the dwarves are fellow programmers locked into a commercial war with the evil stepmother.) French's informal conversational style of first person narrative is easy to read and never seems false or forced. It is simply light-hearted fun written by an author who knows how to communicate with her audience.