Alice in Tumblr-land
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Disney meets Lena Dunham in this illustrated humor book featuring your favorite fairy-tale characters dating and finding their way in 21st-century America The Ugly Duckling still feels gross compared to everyone else, but now she’s got Instagram, and there’s this one filter that makes her look awesome. Cinderella swaps her glass slippers for Crocs. The Tortoise and the Hare Facebook stalk each other. Goldilocks goes gluten free. And Peter Pan finally has to grow up and get a job, or at least start paying rent. Here are more than one hundred fairy tales, illustrated and re-imagined for today. Instead of fairy godmothers, there’s Siri. And rather than big bad wolves, there are creepy dudes on OkCupid. In our brave new world of social networking, YouTube, and texting, fairy tales can once again lead us to “happily ever after”—and have us laughing all the way.
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This came across my desk by accident–it had been ordered by our adult fiction buyer but our TS department assumed it was for teen. I can see why, and I'm debating ordering another copy for teen. I definitely think it would have a lot of teen appeal, although the jokes are most squarely aimed at post-college life. There are a few jokes that are a little bit adult (the word “sexting” is used) but I don't think there's anything in here that's more explicit than say, a [a:Lauren Myracle 157676 Lauren Myracle https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1224298383p2/157676.jpg] novel.I hadn't heard of the Fairy Tales for Twentysomethings blog before, but this is that blog in book form. Like a lot of blogs in book form, I think this is the kind of thing that's absolutely cute and charming on Tumblr, but when you sit down and read a whole book of it, it's like, yeah, okay, I get it, what if fairy tale characters had Facebook.Still, there are a lot of solidly funny jokes in here, and the artwork is adorable.
