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Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers and listeners of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

To become a Queen, Freya has to give up everything.There's only one way to become an immortal, and that is to take up the mantle of everything that she is not. To become fae. To lead a court. To become the Autumn Thief herself.

In the old, old, half-forgotten times, before the gardens of Tartary were overrun with weeds, it was the age of the Shontie. The Shontie were dragons that had wings like butterflies and were the tiniest of all the dragons. The Shontie once blessed the world with their kindness and healing. But beyond the woods, beyond the seas, and beyond high mountains was a jealous dragon.