Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Hardcover – April 1, 2012

The violence and sexual content is technically there, but it's all implied/innuendo. It's more likely to fly over a child's head than actually introduce said child to adult concepts prematurely, as far as I can tell. But it's not really written for children.Brilliant writing. Whether you find politically correct speech a necessity to bring balance to public discourse, or an offensive mangling of language to serve oversensitive crybabies, or somewhere between these two poles, I suspect you will react as I did and find yourself laughing hysterically. The writer manages to mock such speech (it's fair mockery) while also bringing attention to the racism, sexism, classism, and other ills, both of the outrageous variety and the more subtle. It would probably offend everyone across the spectrum if it weren't so f*****g funny. ("Oh, I forgot you are as optically challenged as a bat.") How Red Riding Hood resolved her conflict with the wolf had me laughing hard enough to be sore, when I regained some control.I was afraid that it would get predictable or stale if I kept reading, falling into some formula, but each story had its own pace, its own social wrongs to confront and its own strategy for addressing them. I found myself reading them sparingly, but only so I could extend my enjoyment. Everyone's sense of humor is a little different of course, but if "The Three Codependent Goats Gruff" or "The Duckling That Was Judged On Its Persunal Merits And Not On Its Physical Appearance" (or the word "womyn") make you chuckle even a little bit, I think you'll at least appreciate the humor. If instead it makes you grind your teeth and you find a rant falling out of your mouth before you even know what's happening, then you might find the humor more annoying than funny.(If you're in the latter camp, I encourage you to take a deep breath, a step back, and stop taking the issues raised by these stories so seriously, because it's healthy to know how to laugh at yourself, but your mileage may vary.)

This book is hilarious ! I love it. I read some of the stories to my cousin when she was visiting me, and she nearly fell off the bed from laughing so hard. Our familiar fairy tales have all been adjusted to be carefully politically correct, so that Rumplestiltskin is no longer 'a short little man' but instead is now 'vertically challenged' and Cinderella's stepmother is not ugly, oh no....but she is 'differently envisaged enough to stop a clock' ! These short little stories will make your day.

This you gotta read. Red Riding Hood as an ardent feminist. The 3 Little Pigs fighting the corporate evil of the wolves. The Frog Prince as a seedy looking real estate developer.Way too much fun, wish there were more.

I had the pleasure of reading a translation of this book around 1997/1998, but only reading it in the original version can give a full understanding and an even greater laugh! By re-writing the classic bedtime stories in a 'politically correct' manner JFG provides us with a great satire and shows that there is a very thin line between political correctness and complete absurdity. Moreover, except for the stories contained in the original edition, this edition of the book comes with quite a few extras, which are both a nice surprise, and also a pretty good laugh.

The idea of these bedtime stories is to take traditional stories and move them into modern sensibilities. The idea is good, and some of the stories work a lot better than others. Some of them seem to reach too far with far less success than others. Like all such literature, the idea is more difficult to bring off than it seems should be the case.

This collection is witty and fun. I cracked up the whole time reading them--not great "bedtime" stories if you're looking for something to lull you to sleep, they are far too entertaining for that.

I bought this great book on Kindle yesterday and laughed until I almost howled. I know the book was published quite a while ago but it is still as relevant today as ever. Too many people adopt this weird, pseudo-progressive language completely in earnest, which makes their writing sound extremely comical. What's even worse, they try to censor everybody who doesn't share their terror of language. The recent case of an academic who published a censored review of Mark Twain's novels demonstrates that there are still people who don't have the requisite sense of humor to understand the extreme silliness of any attempts to purge the language of half its vocabulary and literature from all of its "offensive" masterpieces.The author ridicules not only the pseudo-liberal language purges but also the efforts to rewrite famous fairy-tales that have become even more common since the book was first published. Even though Garner's book was published a while ago, it still merits attention as a reminder of how far pseudo-liberals would go in order to distract our attention from the sad reality of how decidedly unprogressive their views actually are.Aside from any political concerns this book might address, it's also so much fun that you will never be sorry you bought it. For the amount of fun my family and I derived from it, it truly comes cheap at the price.

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories is a collection of fairy tales and poems made hilariously politically correct. Some are changed better (and are more funny) than others. It is a fun, quick read. I recommend it!

Brilliant. Great 4 the new mad world of PC overkill.

So refreshing in this PC world.Laugh out loud.

In brilliant condition.One of the funniest books

This was a lighthearted purchase made for a bit of a giggle. My son read it through on the day of purchase, laugh aloud and quoting the text to us all. I read the book a few days later and am still suffering from pain where my sides split!Fantastic. I learned a lot from this book and am no longer the sexist, speciesist, agist person I once was.

The stories are so funny, I bought this as a present for a friend who is into politics and ended up reading it before I gave it to him, the book carefully adds morden politics into classic stories creating a new twist, If you are considering buying this I fully recommend as you won't be disappointed.