A clever rule-breaker who wins with wit instead of strength.
Foxes, Puck, Loki, Anansi, the charming con artist: the trickster disrupts order and exposes hypocrisy. In romance, a trickster love interest keeps the other lead guessing about what's real.
Roald Dahl
Julia Donaldson
Roald Dahl
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Perrault
Ed Young
Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban
Mordicai Gerstein
James Joyce
Gail E. Haley
Paul O. Zelinsky
Janell Cannon
Eric A. Kimmel
Eden Robinson
Marcia Brown, Blaise Cendrars
Gerald McDermott
Jan Brett
Karen Lord
Gerald McDermott
Lloyd Alexander
Gerald McDermott
Joseph Jacobs, W. Frank Calderon
Dianne Snyder
Matt Dembicki
Barbara Knutson
Muriel Gray
Gerald McDermott
Patricia McKissack
Joanne Harris
Lois Ehlert
Charles de Lint
W. A. Clouston
Lesley Sims
Brinton Turkle
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Karen Lord
Fiona French
Adwoa Badoe
Eric Metaxas
Phyllis Root
Gail Robinson, Douglas Hill
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Harve Zemach
Jim Aylesworth
Chris Schweizer
Karsten Knight
Stefan Czernecki
A clever rule-breaker who wins with wit instead of strength. Foxes, Puck, Loki, Anansi, the charming con artist: the trickster disrupts order and exposes hypocrisy. In romance, a trickster love interest keeps the other lead guessing about what's real.
Popular the trickster books include Fantastic Mr Fox (1970), The Gruffalo (1999), The Twits (1967), Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812) and Wieland (1798).