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Cameron Dokey

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Books That Burn

Of Slippers and Spindles - Fairy Tale Retellings and Adaptations in Books, Film, and Theatre

Gail Carson Levine

Donna Jo Napoli

Robin McKinley

Philip Pullman

Eoin Colfer

Danielle Paige

Neil Gaiman

Rick Elice

Dave Barry

William Goldman

Nathan Hale

Brian Jacques

Terry Pratchett

Norton Juster

Marissa Meyer

OwlTail

All right, friends, this is a fun one.  Drew and Cassie are here to duke it out over a disagreement that has lasted many years! This week's retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk is The World Above by Cameron Dokey. This is the last book in the Once Upon A Time book series, which ran from 2002-2010 and retold various fairy tales as written by different authors. Cameron Dokey's take on the Jack tale focuses less on Jack and more on his sister, Gen, who goes on her own adventure. This version is based on the tale as written by Andrew Lang and Benjamin Tabart, in which Jack's adventure is actually a quest to reclaim the castle, gold, goose, and harp that belonged to his father. In addition, Dokey loops in the legend of Robin Hood as well! Cassie has always enjoyed Dokey's books; Drew, not so much, and in high school we used to fight about it... A LOT. Is this the book that finally changed Drew's opinion on Dokey's writing? What about Cassie’s? Do we think Robin Hood has been worked in effectively? Check out the episode to find out!  Join our community! View all of the benefits of joining our Patreon including the Official Of Slippers and Spindles Book Club, exclusive polls, monthly bookmarks, Zoom hangouts, and more! https://patreon.com/ofslippersandspindlesVisit our our new merch story, Facebook group, Instagram, and more! https://linktr.ee/ofslippersandspindlesWe love to hear from you! You can reach us at ofslippersandspindles@gmail.com Music: Through The Woods by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

All right, friends, this is a fun one.  Drew and Cassie are here to duke it out over a disagreement that has lasted many years! This week's retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk is The World Above by Cameron Dokey. This is the last book in the Once Upon A Time book series, which ran from 2002-2010 and retold various fairy tales as written by different authors. Cameron Dokey's take on the Jack tale focuses less on Jack and more on his sister, Gen, who goes on her own adventure. This version is based on the tale as written by Andrew Lang and Benjamin Tabart, in which Jack's adventure is actually a quest to reclaim the castle, gold, goose, and harp that belonged to his father. In addition, Dokey loops in the legend of Robin Hood as well! Cassie has always enjoyed Dokey's books; Drew, not so much, and in high school we used to fight about it... A LOT. Is this the book that finally changed Drew's opinion on Dokey's writing? What about Cassie’s? Do we think Robin Hood has been worked in effectively? Check out the episode to find out!  Join our community! View all of the benefits of joining our Patreon including the Official Of Slippers and Spindles Book Club, exclusive polls, monthly bookmarks, Zoom hangouts, and more! <a href="https://patreon.com/ofslippersandspindles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/ofslippersandspindles</a> Visit our our new merch story, Facebook group, Instagram, and more! <a href="https://linktr.ee/ofslippersandspindles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/ofslippersandspindles</a> We love to hear from you! You can reach us at ofslippersandspindles@gmail.com  Music: Through The Woods by Shane Ivers - <a href="https://www.silvermansound.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.silvermansound.com</a>

Ep. 44: The World Above by Cameron Dokey

Sleep deprivation, stories-within-stories-within-stories and questionable romance come together to make up this engaging, Shahrazad-centric retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. The titular character is a teenager tasked with telling her new husband a story so good he'll spare her life just to make it past a cliffhanger (we're just grumpy that we don't get to hear much of that story ourselves). We fill in the blanks with a discussion of the novel's sometimes questionable approach to girl power and plenty of reminiscing about the role of storytelling in our lives.MUSIC - Pippin the Hunchback and Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Sleep deprivation, stories-within-stories-within-stories and questionable romance come together to make up this engaging, Shahrazad-centric <a href="https://amzn.to/2LurFpF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">retelling of One Thousand and One Nights</a>. The titular character is a teenager tasked with telling her new husband a story so good he'll spare her life just to make it past a cliffhanger (we're just grumpy that we don't get to hear much of that story ourselves). We fill in the blanks with a discussion of the novel's sometimes questionable approach to girl power and plenty of reminiscing about the role of storytelling in our lives.MUSIC - Pippin the Hunchback and Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod (<a href="http://incompetech.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">incompetech.com</a>) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>

Episode 18 - The Storyteller's Daughter, by Cameron Dokey