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 frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like the adventures of many fairy-tale