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Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062289575
- ISBN: 0062289578
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Physical Description:
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114 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, [2014]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The woods -- The never-ending story -- The wicked Queen's legacy -- Abercrombie dressing room -- Sleeping Beauty's wedding day -- Photoshopped poem -- Prince Charming -- A brief history of feminism -- Suburban legends -- The first anorexic -- A Shape Magazine fiary tale -- Retelling -- BFF -- Blow your house in -- "Mannequins make me feel like a failure"-Claudia age 13 -- If tampons were for guys -- The giant's daughter at spring formal -- The anorexic eats a salad -- A witch's disenchantment -- "Sweet nothings" -- Weight watchers -- To my sheep, whatever you are -- First semester haiku -- Vindictive punctuation -- The elves and the anorexic -- Runaway -- You go, girl -- Thumbelina's get-tiny cleanse-tested -- The little mermaid -- Health class -- ugly stepsister -- Transformation -- Boy toy villanelle -- Rapunzel -- Light as a feather, stiff as a board -- Nature lesson -- Red-handed -- Finders, keepers -- Gingerbread -- What she heard the waitress say -- Going under -- Life among the swans -- Big bad spa treatment -- Human centipede two -- Spotless -- The beast -- Bird girl -- Assassin -- View from the balcony -- Pink champagne. |
| Target Audience Note: | NP Lexile. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving depiction of young women, society, and our expectations. Poisoned Apples is a dark, clever, witty, beautiful, and important book for teenage girls, their sisters, their mothers, and their best friends"-- - Baker & Taylor
An evocative treasury of 50 free-verse poems that juxtapose fairy-tale elements against the life of a modern teen explores the universal cruelty of judgment, pressure and self-doubt while reflecting how girls are taught to think about themselves, their friends and their bodies. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
Free-verse poems juxtapose fairy tale elements against the life of a teen and explore the cruelty of judgment, pressure, and self-doubt while reflecting on how girls are taught to think about themselves, their friends, and their bodies. - HARPERCOLL
Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale.
Christine Heppermann's collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl. With piercing truths reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins, this is a powerful and provocative book for every young woman. E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars, calls it "a bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth that's caustic, funny, and heartbreaking."
Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. Self-doubt and self-confidence. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking. In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, Poisoned Apples explores how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, and their friends. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again.
- HARPERCOLL
Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale.
Christine Heppermann's collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl. With piercing truths reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins, this is a powerful and provocative book for every young woman. E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars, calls it "a bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth that's caustic, funny, and heartbreaking."
Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. Self-doubt and self-confidence. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking. In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, Poisoned Apples explores how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, and their friends. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again.
