Release Party: The Stepmother Who Dreamed of Feathers
Written by Kristen Grace and Illustrated by Natasha Alterici
4-9pm Friday, 3-24 at The Literati Press Bookshop in The Paseo Plunge
3010 Paseo in Oklahoma City
A fairy tale written for modern, blended families, writer Kristen Grace and illustrator Natasha Alterici combine their gifts to tell a magical story about an very unusual royal family.
Unsatisfied with fairytales which routinely vilify stepmothers, author Kristen Grace wanted to write a story that reflected the truth about the families she knew that were centered around strong and loving stepmothers. “My own daughter has a wonderful stepmother. When I couldn’t find a story with a good stepmother in it for her last Mother’s Day, I decided I would have to write my own.”
Illustrator Natasha Alterici is also the creator of the critically-heralded comic series, Heathen, which also utilized a familiar fantasy trope to explore equality and gender-bias.
Kristen Grace says, “It’s a feminist issue, yes. Why don’t we have any Grimm’s fairy tales about bad stepfathers? But at heart, it’s a family issue.” Grace says that it was important that she write this particular story without a villain. “I wanted to create a story that most children could relate to. Children rarely see one parent as the hero and the other as the bad guy. They almost always love all their parents. In the same way, I tried to write a story where drama was created only through misunderstandings.”
“I wanted Natasha to have total artistic freedom, because I’ve seen how incredibly gifted and intelligent she is. And that was the right decision. In some ways, she understood the story better than I did. She created many of the scenes using her own creative input and made the world and the characters so real and very vivid.”
The Stepmother Who Dreamed Of Feathers will be available in bookstores across Oklahoma City and online at literatipressok.com. Kristen Grace and Natasha Alterici will be on hand to sign copies. You can also purchase online HERE.
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The Stepmother Who Dreamed Of Feathers By Kristen Grace & Natasha Alterici
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$7.00
