Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody.[1] The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, rewritten so that they represent what a politically correct adult would consider a good and moral tale for children.[2]
The revisions include extensive usage of politically correct buzzwords (and parodies thereof), deliberately stiff moralizing dialogue and narration, inclusion of modern concepts and objects (such as health spas, mineral water, and automobiles), and often feature a plot twist that reverses the roles of the heroes and villains of the story (for example, the woodsman in Little Red Riding Hood is seen by Red Riding Hood not as a heroic saviour but as a "sexist" and "speciesist" interloper, and Snow White's evil stepmother ends up with a positive portrayal while the prince and the seven dwarves are portrayed as chauvinistic).
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was Garner's first published book (or, in the words of his similarly satirical biography blurb from the book, "his first processed tree carcass"). More than 2.5 million copies have been sold in the United States and it has since been translated into 20 languages. Garner wrote two follow-up books: Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories[3] and Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season,[4] the latter book satirizing political correctness during the Christmas holiday season. In 1998, the three books were compiled into an omnibus collection called Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook.[5] All editions of the Politically Correct titles are currently out of print.
In 2018, Garner released "Politically Correct Pinocchio".
^Garner, James Finn (April 1994). Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 0-02-542730-X.
^Kerridge, Jake (February 23, 2023). "The satirist who accidentally predicted Roald Dahl-gate" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^Garner, James Finn (May 1995). Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New Jersey: Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 0-02-860419-9.
^Garner, James Finn (October 1995). Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 0-02-860420-2.
^Garner, James Finn (August 1998). Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Once upon a More Enlightened Time, and Politically Correct Holiday Stories. New York: Smithmark Publishers. ISBN 0-7651-0867-4.
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