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 […]
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 […]
Giving faces to Disney Princesses? What do you mean, you say? Well, English student Jirka Väätäinen has done just that and given Disney princesses faces that are actually a pretty […]
Sometime this past summer, Kathie Shoemaker created fairy tale themed centrepieces for a friend’s wedding. As it fits rather snugly into our blog’s theme of the month, Kathie has graciously […]
Source: Review Copy from First Second. Expected Publishing Date: 24th September, 2013. [Goodreads Link] “Choosing the tales for this book involved the best kind of research: reading as many fairy […]
Merrie Haskell is the author of The Princess Curse (2011), Handbook for Dragon Slayers (2013), and the soon-to-be-published The Castle Behind Thorns. She has also written several short stories. The […]
The Cinderella tale is arguably one of the most popular canonical fairy tales in existence. The earliest known version is actually Ye Xian, a 9th century Chinese fairy tale that bears striking […]
Marissa Meyer burst upon the YA Lit scene with her wonderful retelling of popular fairytale, Cinderella. Cinder, the first in the Lunar Chronicles quartet, stars a Cyborg reincarnation of Cinderella and […]
Now the poor child was all alone in the great forest, and so terrified that she looked at all the leaves on the trees, and did not know what to […]
“What’s the use of stories if they aren’t even true?” – Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories Giving this month a title was more problematic than might be apparent. […]