« Commençons par donner aux garçons la chance d’être féminins, et aux filles la chance d’être masculines. Laissons-leur cette liberté de trouver leur place malgré les injonctions de la langue. Transformons la langue. Transformons le monde. Proposons-leur de nouveaux récits. C’est exactement ce que ce recueil de contes, avec son simple algorithme, crée sous nos yeux enchantés. »Marie DarrieussecqIl était une fois un monde où les princess...

Qui n’a pas entendu parler d’Ulysse et de ses sirènes ? De l’amour fou d’Orphée pour Eurydice ? Ou de la mystérieuse boîte de Pandore ?Depuis des milliers d’années nous lisons avec délice les aventures des dieux et déesses de la mythologie grecque. Dans ces récits, la force et le courage sont l’apanage des hommes tandis que les femmes sont trop souvent cantonnées aux rôles de jeunes filles sans défense ou d’épouses jalouses éconduites. Ces mythes continuent pourtant de forger notre ...

Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . .Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside.People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help thei...

'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.' GuardianImagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death, where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun, and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens...For thousands of years, Greek myths have been told and retold. In these stories, brutality and bravery are reserved for men, while women are wicked witches or helpless maidens. Today, the...

People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change..They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, o...

Märchen sind oft die ersten Geschichten, die Kindern erzählt werden. Sie sind voller Magie, aber auch voller Klischees. Sie teilen die Welt in Gut und Böse und prägen unsere Vorstellung, wie Mädchen und Jungen sein sollen, von klein auf. Karrie und Jonathan haben sich beim Lesen der Märchen darüber geärgert, wie veraltet die Bilder sind, die wir unseren Kindern mitgeben, und wollten herausfinden, was passiert, wenn Rapunzel einen Bart herunterlässt und Dornröschen von einer Prinzessin erlö...

'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.' GuardianImagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death, where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun, and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens...For thousands of years, Greek myths have been told and retold. In these stories, brutality and bravery are reserved for men, while women are wicked witches or helpless maidens. Today, these...