?Once Upon a Time? with a Satiric Twist

Santa Fe, NM (Vocus/PRWEB) December 14, 2010

?Once upon a time?? is a phrase children grow up knowing introduces a story not only of adventure and romance but of human plight and peril, heroic effort and victory ? and instruction.

Like many of us, Roberta Parry was fed as a child traditional folk literature, which she swallowed whole without question. But as an adult, introducing these tales to her daughter, she found some no longer went down so easily. In rejection of the image of and attitude toward women presented by the eighteenth-century grim brothers, she determined to right the record from the experience and perspective of a twenty-first-century woman.

FEMME TALES: Six short Sagas and One Long Story is a playful, irreverent, sometimes camp re-vision of the Grimm?s tales. ?Little Red Riding Hood? becomes ?Little Red Jogging Suit,? wherein a sparky girl and her spunky grandmother take on a wolf in sheep?s clothing, only to find themselves victims of the legal/judicial system. In ?Hannah and Greggo,? closet-cousins of ?Hansel and Gretel,? a savvy big sister saves her innocent little brother from the clutches of a wicked warlock.

Other rightings-of-the-record include: ?The Frog Prince or the Ugly Princess or Hopeless Henry,? ?Sungold and the Seven Midgets,? ?AshesAngie,? ?Sweeping Beauty,? and ?Ms. Fisherwoman and Spouse,? illegitimate offspring of ?the Toad Prince,? ?Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,? ?Cinderella,? ?Sleeping Beauty,? and ?The Fisherman and His Wife.?

May you read with a laugh ? and a nod, Parry invites. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.

FEMME TALES * by Roberta Parry

Six Short Sagas and One Long Story

Publication Date: December 11, 2010

Trade Paperback; $ 19.99; 128 pages; 978-1-4568-1392-5

Trade Hardback; $ 29.99; 128 pages; 978-1-4568-1393-2

eBook; $ 9.99; 978-1-4568-1394-9

Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at +0800-644-6988. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at 44-203-006-8880 or call +0800-644-6988.

For more information on self-publishing or marketing with Xlibris, visit http://www.Xlibris.com. To receive a free publishing guide, please call (888) 795-4274.

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Sharing-Books.com, Promotional Partner of Room to Read, Publishes Innovative Interactive Book with art History Twist

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Mr. Pierre Lapointe, CEO of Shared Books Limited is pleased to announce the release of the first Android interactive tablet book produced by the company.

Published on the company's http://www.sharing-books.com web site by Vancouver painter Niina Chebry, Auguste RoDent, The Artist of Abundant Talent, is the charming story of an artist mouse, living in Paris at the end of the 1800s. Auguste is a mouse that sculpts masterpieces in imported cheese. Not using French cheese creates a scandal triggered by the Art critic Mr Brie. Auguste's reputation is restored by the mouse writer B.E.L.L.E. Eiffel.

Ms Chebry took two years to paint over 40 canvasses and to polish her rhyming narration. The book has beautiful illustrations with a fresh unique style. The text is very musical. The story's humour is multi-layered and it appeals to both children and parents. A graduate of the University of Alberta, Ms Chebry, wove her love of Art history throughout the book and shared her knowledge with the factoids built into the book's art gallery.

Thanks to the participation of BC Film and the BC Arts Council Interactive Fund Pilot Program, with funding provided by the 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy, the book was transformed into a fun interactive book by a talented team of graduates from the Vancouver Film School. The book innovates the genre by offering a portrait mode with interactive features, highlighted narration, and the discovery of art masterpieces that are added to a built-in art gallery as the book is explored. In landscape mode the book reads like a paper book to offer parents the pleasure of reading a book with their child.

Mr Lapointe comments: " This has been a labor of love for all participants. Everyone's was emotionally engaged not only because this is a great book, but also because of our commitment as promotional partner of Room to Read to donate a significant portion of our revenue to help Room to Read's literacy and education gender equality missions."

The book was developed on Motorola Xoom tablets. It is currently being ported for the IPad and the Amazon Fire tablets. More details can be found at http://www.augusterodent.com

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New Book Release: "Once Upon A Time" with a Satiric Twist

Santa Fe, NM (Vocus/PRWEB) January 13, 2011

?Once upon a time?? is a phrase children grow up knowing introduces a story not only of adventure and romance but of human plight and peril, heroic effort and victory ? and instruction.

Like many of us, Roberta Parry was fed as a child traditional folk literature, which she swallowed whole without question. But as an adult, introducing these tales to her daughter, she found some no longer went down so easily. In rejection of the image of and attitude toward women presented by the eighteenth-century grim brothers, she determined to right the record from the experience and perspective of a twenty-first-century woman.

FEMME TALES: Six short Sagas and One Long Story is a playful, irreverent, sometimes camp re-vision of the Grimm?s tales. ?Little Red Riding Hood? becomes ?Little Red Jogging Suit,? wherein a sparky girl and her spunky grandmother take on a wolf in sheep?s clothing, only to find themselves victims of the legal/judicial system. In ?Hannah and Greggo,? closet-cousins of ?Hansel and Gretel,? a savvy big sister saves her innocent little brother from the clutches of a wicked warlock.

Other rightings-of-the-record include: ?The Toad Prince or The Dog Princess or Hopeless Henry,? ?Sungold and the Seven Midgets,? ?AshesAngie,? ?Sweeping Beauty,? and ?Ms. Fisherwoman and Spouse,? illegitimate offspring of ?The Frog King,? ?Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,? ?Cinderella,? ?Sleeping Beauty,? and ?The Fisherman and His Wife.?

May you read with a laugh ? and a nod, Parry invites. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.

FEMME TALES * by Roberta Parry

Six Short Sagas and One Long Story

Publication Date: January 7, 2011

Trade Paperback; $ 19.99; 128 pages; 978-1-4568-1392-5

Trade Hardback; $ 29.99; 128 pages; 978-1-4568-1393-2

eBook; $ 9.99; 978-1-4568-1394-9

Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879.

For more information on self-publishing or marketing with Xlibris, visit http://www.Xlibris.com. To receive a free publishing guide, please call (888) 795-4274.

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