Вивиан Ванде Велде - автор 6 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Сказки братцев Гримм и сестричек Жутть, Frogged, A Hidden Magic. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Добро пожаловать в Сумерки, где рассыпано в прах присущее традиционным сказкам противоборство добра и зла. Вивиан Ванде Велде взяла тринадцать популярных историй и перевернула их с ног на голову, вывернула наизнанку, создав правило "Как сломать сказку": 1. Сделать героем злодея. 2. Сделать героя злодеем. 3. Рассказать, что произошло на самом деле. 4. Все выше перечисленное. Мир окончател...
One should be able to say of a princess “She was as good as she was beautiful,” according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition), which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly good, or all that beautiful, she heads for a nearby pond, where, unfortunately, a talking frog tricks her into kissing him. No prince appears, as one ...
When Kerry’s little brother forgets his stuffed bear at the laundry, Kerry ventures out at 11:00 p.m. to retrieve it for him. The laundry is deserted and kind of spooky, and while she’s there three men burst in, dragging a bound and bloodied young man they insist is a vampire. Kerry helps him escape, only to be caught up in a desperate game between vampire hunters and their prey.
Welcome to the fairy-tale world where Hansel and Gretel are horrible children who deserve to be baked and where Beauty is dismayed when her beloved Beast turns human. In the world of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, when the sky really does fall, Chicken Little becomes the leader of her own religious movement, gets her own TV show, collects millions of dollars to build a theme park, and t...
Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter--the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It's late, it's cold, and it's raining, and Alys can think of only one thing--revenge. But first she's got to escape, and even if she does, how can one girl possibly take on an entire town alone? Then the dragon arrives--a dragon that c...