Suspicious, suspicious...

This week a student walked in asking for a list of alternatives to standard fairytales for a paper she was writing for class.  I proceeded with the typical reference interview:  What did she mean by alternatives?  Retellings that were slightly different?  (Idries Shaw's World Tales immediately came to mind.)

After some back and forth, after I suggested The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf, Wicked and a couple of other perfectly hilarious retellings of traditional children's tales--not necessarily fairy tales--she decided what she really wanted was a feminist retelling of a fairytale or children's story.

At that point I was stumped although in the back of my mind I could remember some writer who studied children's stories from an alternative viewpoint, which I thought was feminist, and I vaguely remembered this author as having mentioned feminist fairytales/children's stories in her books.  (I since realized I was thinking about Jane Yolen.)