Book Review: Red’s Untold Tale + Giveaway!!
Samples and prizing were provided by Disney-Hyperion. All opinions are mine.
Do you love to read or have young readers in your home? If so, you’ll want to check out these Disney-Hyperion titles, each with a unique twist on popular stories! These stories are great because they are the original fairy tales…retold! The stories include A Whole New World, Once Upon a Time: Red’s Untold Tale, and A Frozen Heart.
ONCE UPON A TIME: RED’S UNTOLD TALE
by Wendy Toliver
In stores now!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Red is 16 and lives with Granny in a cottage in the village, where boarding up the house and hiding during Wolfstime is a means of survival. Red help’s Granny with Granny’s baked good business, catering as well as door-to-door sales. Red has a constant internal battle between her wild side and her strict, overprotective upbringing, and the issue of “control” as she discovers she has a hot temper when the “mean girls” push her too far. (“When we learn to control it, we needn’t fear it,” Rumpelstiltskin says in the series.) She has flashbacks to her 13th year when she received her cloak and the nickname “Red.” She is plagued by nightmares that she doesn’t understand, but the Once Upon a Time fans will recognize them as her wolf side coming out. Redbalances the difficult times with Granny at home and the girls at school with an emerging and satisfying romance with Peter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Toliver is the award-winning author of four YA novels: The Secret Life of A Teenage Siren, Miss Match, Lifted, and Once Upon A Time: Red’s Untold Tale. She lives in the Utah mountains with three sons, two cats, two dogs, and one husband. She enjoys reading, hiking, wakeboarding, snowboarding, watching movies, sweet potato fries, Halloween, and daydreaming.
LEARN MORE
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by Liz Braswell
In stores now!
About the Book
What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney’s Aladdin. When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.
by Elizabeth Rudnick
In stores now!
About the Book
Told in alternating chapters from both Anna’s and Hans’ perspectives, A Frozen Heart takes a sophisticated look at events of Frozen, exploring the couple’s backstories, motivations, and doomed relationship.
GIVEAWAY
FAIRY TALE 2.0 PRIZING
One (1) winner on The Mommy-Files will receive a Fairy Tale 2.0 Prize Pack, including:
- Copy of Red’s Untold Tale;
- plus FAIRY TALE 2.0 tank, notepad, cosmetic pouch & pillow.
Giveaway open to US addresses only. Prizing and samples provided by Disney-Hyperion.
Tell me in a comment which book in the series you would read first!
i would read a whole new world first
I’d read A WHOLE NEW WORLD first.
I may read a frozen heart first since I am more familiar with the frozen franchise
I would read Reds untold story, curious how that would go. I just love fairy tales.
I would read, A Whole New World first. I like the cover.
I would read a Frozen Heart first.
Red’s Untold Tale first
the frozen heart first. thankyou ken
I’d read A Frozen Heart first
I would read Once Upon a Time: Red’s Untold Tale first.
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I’d read ONCE UPON A TIME: RED’S UNTOLD TALE first.
I’d like to read A Whole New World first. Thanks.
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I would read A Whole New World first.
I would read Red’s Untold Tale first
Definitely Red’s Untold Tale
I’d read A Frozen Heart first!
I would read a Frozen Heart first.
I’d read Red’s Untold Tale first!
I would read Red’s Untold Tale first.
I would like to read Red’s Untold Tale first. I miss Red in the show Once Upon A Time.
I would read A Frozen Heart.
I would read A Whole New World first.
I would read The Frozen Heart.
I would read A Whole New World first.
I would read Once Upon a Time. Thank you
I would like to read A Whole New World first
I’d love to read Frozen Heart first.
I would read Frozen Heart.
I would read A Frozen Heart first.