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Little Lulu Gave Me Fairy Tales

Candice Ransom — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:09:56 +0000

Many children were once introduced to fairy tales by Andrew Lang’s books or the complete stories of Grimm or Anderson. Yet I was steeped in fairy tales through Little Lulu comic books.

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Borrowed Sparkle

Candice Ransom — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:50:44 +0000

I sat on a rusted swing hung from an I beam in our basement with a heavy book on my lap. I was ten and lonely because my only sister had left home a year earlier.

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Fairy Tales, Part 2

Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:28:39 +0000

Trina Schart Hyman’s retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” is a familiar one. This was Hyman’s favorite fairy tale, and as a child, she spent a whole year wearing the red cape her mother made for her. On the verso of the title page, Little Red is reading her own story featuring the cover of Hyman’s book, sucking her thumb, just as Hyman did in childhood.

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Fairy Tales, Part 1

Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:00:04 +0000

The universal appeal of fairy tales is documented by the similarities of stories across countries, cultures and centuries. The “Cinderella” story alone is over 1000 years old with over 1000 varients. What makes an individual picture book version of a fairy tale unique? The illustrations. Jane Yolen (2004) states, “Many of the picture-book retellings of folktales are more about the art than the story” (p.

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Well-Traveled Paths

Lisa Bullard — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:00:36 +0000

by Lisa Bullard
I slip into auto-pilot when I’m driving through overly familiar territory; I stop taking in the same old landmarks. And then one day, there’s a stop sign where there’s never been one before, and my eyes are re-opened to the possibilities around me.
There are “story paths” like that too: fairy tales and other narratives that have grown so familiar we fail to notice the power they hold unless we’re forced to take a fresh look.… more

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