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Tales of Faerie: Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood. This children's book, Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood,. Told by Mike Artell and illustrated by Jim Harris, is not new, but this book caught my eye recently and is very highly rated. Readers are impressed by the authentic Cajun voice and story details, and clever pictures. In this version of the story, the little girl and the wolf are replaced by a gutsy duck and a crocodile. It's always fun to see the behind-the-scenes work of artists!
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Tales of Faerie: The Real Persinette
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Friday, July 10, 2015. Charlotte Rose de la Force's "Persinette" has become more well known thanks to Kate Forsyth's novel Bitter Greens. Which has enthralled fairy tale fans (and left us all anxiously awaiting Wild Girl. Thanks to Surlalune's Rapunzel and other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World. I was able to read the actual story by Charlotte Rose de la Force. First of all, it's not exactly like the story Charlotte is told in Bitter Greens. Persinette's drawers were full of jewels, and he...
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Tales of Faerie: Madame D'Aulnoy's Green Snake: Beauty, Ugliness, and Curiosity
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Thursday, August 11, 2011. Madame D'Aulnoy's Green Snake: Beauty, Ugliness, and Curiosity. I can't think of any actual folktales that have an ugly human female as the protagonist). My ugliness disgusts even my family.wouldn't it be better for me to perish than to drag out such a miserable existence? I don't get it, myself. Feminism has come a long way since the late 1600s. Labels: Animal Bridegroom tales. December 14, 2011 at 1:19 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Tales of Faerie! I'm Kr...
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Tales of Faerie: Sarah Moon's Little Red Riding Hood
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Saturday, August 8, 2015. Sarah Moon's Little Red Riding Hood. These Red Riding Hood photographs by Sarah Moon are so haunting. Many people tend to have a more romanticized notion of a little girl in red skipping through the forest, but these black and white images set in an urban and more modern setting evoke more dread and horror. Apparently Moon modeled her daughter. As Little Red for this 1983 book. Little Red Riding Hood. August 8, 2015 at 5:31 PM. August 12, 2015 at 7:38 AM. I'm Kristin, your host&...
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Tales of Faerie: Very Tiny Children
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Whether we're reading "Tom Thumb", "Hop-o-My-Thumb", or my personal favorite, "Thumbelina," people have been fascinated by stories in which the heroes are extremely small, sometimes only the length of an adult's thumb. Why do we tell stories that feature such impossibly tiny characters? The themes and motifs are different when featuring males verses females, so here's a brief look at the significance of a tiny heroine in "Thumbelina.". Again, like "Beauty and the Beast,").
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Tales of Faerie: The Frog Prince: A Sri Lankan Tale
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Monday, August 3, 2015. The Frog Prince: A Sri Lankan Tale. Found this very curious Sri Lankan version of the "Frog Prince". Tale in Surlalune's The Frog Prince and Other Frog Tales From Around The World. And although it features a frog who turns into a prince, it's pretty different from our standard, Grimm version of the tale of the same name. And what correlation the action had to the consequence? The mysteries of the fairy tale world.). Then the ending is surprising and sudden. The frog returned t...
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Tales of Faerie: More on Perrault and His Views on Women
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Monday, January 19, 2015. More on Perrault and His Views on Women. My reading on Perrault and my last post made me curious enough to consult other sources. From Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales. Jack Zipes writes,. He [Perrault] had been annoyed by Boileau's satires against women. Thus, we wrote three verse tales, Griselda. Along with a long poem, Apologie des femmes. In defense of women, a defense, which is, however, questionable. And send his first wife home again. Then...
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Tales of Faerie: Voice of the Narrator
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Saturday, July 18, 2015. Voice of the Narrator. D'Aulnoy's most popular tales often featured enterprising, clever girls. Whose lives were tyrannized by wicked kings and fathers-very different from the stories of the better-known Charles Perrault, whose heroines are marked by their modesty, obedience, and reliance on the ingenuity of a prince to save them. From the spell of a wicked stepmother or witch." -Susan Bordo* (emphasis mine). Hmmwhat do you think of this quote? Fairy tale endings generally satisf...
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Tales of Faerie: Fairy Tale Illustrator: Gyo Fujikawa
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Fairy Tale Illustrator: Gyo Fujikawa. 1908-1998) was a Japanese-American children's book illustrator. She is known for being one of the first illustrators to feature multi-racial children in her drawings, although, apparently not for European-based fairy tales. Fujikawa's books have been reprinted for mass-market and published worldwide. Her most popular books,. A to Z Picture Book. What A Busy Day! From "The Three Wishes". July 22, 2015 at 1:28 AM. July 22, 2015 at 3:39 AM. I'm K...
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Tales of Faerie: The Witch Must Die
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Monday, March 31, 2014. The Witch Must Die. Tony and I finally made it to our new library, and of course the first place I went was to check out their fairy tale section. And fortunately this new library has several interesting books I haven't read yet! Such is the case with The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives. The two different subtitles. I find it very odd that this is the conclusion he reaches, because in his own preface he states that fairy tales were NOT originally meant for children...
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