Leaping Beauty cover art

Leaping Beauty

Preview

Try for $0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Leaping Beauty

Written by: Gregory Maguire
Narrated by: Gregory Maguire
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $12.81

Buy Now for $12.81

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel Wicked as well as the hilarious middle-grade series The Hamlet Chronicles.

Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes, and one very bad walrus.

©2004 Gregory Maguire (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Animal Fiction Animals Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Fiction Humorous Fiction Comedy Funny Witty Fantasy
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What the critics say

"A delightful collection." (Booklist)
"Maguire raises fractured fairy tales to a new level of silliness in this laugh-out-loud collection." (Publishers Weekly)
"In his first narration of his own work, Gregory Maguire whips up an array of clever voices for the cast of creatures in Leaping Beauty....Maguire thoroughly enjoys himself on this collection as he plays for laughs. His timing and character voices are pitch-perfect for the text." (AudioFile)

What listeners say about Leaping Beauty

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.