The 2015 Fairytale Challenge!

Throughout 2015, Mel from The Daily Prophecy will be hosting the Fairytale Challenge!

• The challenge runs from January 1st to December 31st 2015
• The goal is simply to read retellings (fairytale or not!) throughout 2015. The book doesn't have to be published in 2015 and rereads count! 
• There are 6 different levels you can aim for:
  - Prince Charming (1 - 4 Books)
  - Magic Mirror (5 - 9 Books)
  - Big Bad Wolf (10 - 15 Books)
  - The Wise Princess (16 - 20 Books)
  - Wicked Fairy Godmother (21 - 25 Books)
  - Bluebeard (26+ Books)

You can join this challenge up until December 31st 2014 by leaving a link to your introduction post here!

I grew up on Grimm's Tales, so I've loved fairytales and fairytale retellings for years. So, naturally, I just had to take part in this challenge. I won't be limiting myself to just fairytale retellings, as much as I love them, because there are so many amazing retellings out there that focus more on folk tales and even classics and I want to read as many of them as I  can!

Here are the retellings I'd like to read in 2015:

Fairest

by Marissa Meyer

Winter

by Marissa Meyer

Retelling of: Snow White

For Darkness Shows the Stars

by Diana Peterfreund

Retelling of: Persuasion

Of Beast and Beauty

by Stacey Jay

Retelling of: Beauty and the Beast

The Mirk and Midnight Hour

by Jane Nickerson

Retelling of: Tam Lin

Faery Tales

by Carol Ann Duffy

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monster

by Ben H. Winters

Retelling of: Sense and Sensibility

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

by Genevieve Valentine

Retelling of: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Warm Bodies

by Isaac Marion

Retelling of: Romeo and Juliet

Cruel Beauty

by Rosamund Hodge

Retelling of: Beauty and the Beast

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New Stories from The Mabinogion

This month I started my new job at Seren Books, an independent publisher in South Wales, who over the past few years have published retellings of the eleven stories in The Mabinogion, old Welsh folk tales based on Celtic mythology, and in 2015 I'm going to try and read them all! I'm particularly eager to read The Meat Tree by Gwyneth Lewis, White Ravens by Owen Sheers, and The Prince's Pen by Horatio Clare.

If I saw even one other person read a Mabinogion retelling I'd be thrilled; it'd be wonderful to see everyone reading retellings that aren't the typical Grimm's Fairy Tales retellings.

If you'd like to know more about the New Stories from The Mabinogion series, you can find out more here!

Are you taking part in the challenge throughout 2015?