Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com
When I was little, I used to watch The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. It had a segment called Fractured Fairy Tales, which was what I waited to see. They would take a fairy tale and change it. It was very funny, and was a little like this book.
Tansy is very unhappy. She is very mad at her father because he left her family. He has remarried and is living in Arizona with his step-son and wife. When her dad left, Tansy gave up reading. It was a way to punish her dad.
When her little sister gets a part in a Broadway tour, her mother sends Tansy to live with her father. When she gets there she doesn't make a whole lot of wise choices. She dates a hoodlum and gets arrested. The night that happens, Chrissy Everstar comes to give her three wishes.
The problem with Chrissy's wishes is that they are never exactly what the wisher wants. First, Robin Hood and his merry men arrive in Arizona. Robin Hood is not a nice guy like the legends say. Then, Tansy and her whole family - plus her possible boyfriend - end up in the fairy tale Rumplestiltskin.
I really liked this story because it shows the middle ages the way they were and not a romanticized version. The people are poor and dirty, and life is very hard there. Tansy has to think about how to trick not just Rumplestiltskin but how to get her whole family back to the twenty-first century, where she discovers that she had what she wanted all along. If you like fairy tales, pick up MY UNFAIR GODMOTHER.
When I was little, I used to watch The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. It had a segment called Fractured Fairy Tales, which was what I waited to see. They would take a fairy tale and change it. It was very funny, and was a little like this book.
Tansy is very unhappy. She is very mad at her father because he left her family. He has remarried and is living in Arizona with his step-son and wife. When her dad left, Tansy gave up reading. It was a way to punish her dad.
When her little sister gets a part in a Broadway tour, her mother sends Tansy to live with her father. When she gets there she doesn't make a whole lot of wise choices. She dates a hoodlum and gets arrested. The night that happens, Chrissy Everstar comes to give her three wishes.
The problem with Chrissy's wishes is that they are never exactly what the wisher wants. First, Robin Hood and his merry men arrive in Arizona. Robin Hood is not a nice guy like the legends say. Then, Tansy and her whole family - plus her possible boyfriend - end up in the fairy tale Rumplestiltskin.
I really liked this story because it shows the middle ages the way they were and not a romanticized version. The people are poor and dirty, and life is very hard there. Tansy has to think about how to trick not just Rumplestiltskin but how to get her whole family back to the twenty-first century, where she discovers that she had what she wanted all along. If you like fairy tales, pick up MY UNFAIR GODMOTHER.
