Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws

A richly illustrated collection of evocative animal stories that offers young adult and adult readers a new vision of the fairy-tale past.

A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture—the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the f...