On European Wolves and Korean Tigers: A Guest Post from Saeyong Kim
Thank you, lovely Book Warriors, for inviting me to write a post. I will discuss a fierce folktale which most people know a variant or two of: Little Red Riding […]
Category Archives: Picturebooks
Banned Books Week: The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Hardcover, 40 pages Published January 18th 1996 by HarperCollins (first published January 1st 1970) This tiny picturebook has received numerous awards. Among them: 1971 Caldecott Medal Book Notable Children’s Books […]
The Fairy Tale Dystopia
The idea that either dystopia texts rely heavily on fairy tale elements or that fairy tales are really set in a dystopian world has been buzzing around my head […]
Cinderella Stories
As we know, there is no dearth of Cinderlla-esque stories, retellings, and adaptations- not today and, as it turns out, not even in the past. Since Nafiza has worked hard […]
On Tricksters: Ananse and Kanchil
A trickster is just what a storymaker needs: a character who makes things happen. – “Author’s Note”, Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale, retold by Tololwa M. Mollel and illustrated by Andrew […]
Mixed Up Fairy Tales a Discussion and Some Picturebooks
I remember the first story I wrote for children. I was in grade 3. It was an assignment – write a mixed up fairy tale. Consequentially, I smushed the Princess […]
The Book Wars 