What makes a story interesting? What makes a story a classic, like the fairy tales so commonly learned in childhood from around the world? What makes a story live a long, healthy life? People for thousands and thousands of years have listened to storytellers of all kinds read fairy tales. Librarians, teachers, parents, and professionals tell and retell fairy tales. As you will learn, there's more than just one type of Cinderella.
Why do fairy tales live so long? They tell us stories of magic and beauty that stand the test of time. Sometimes the stories change over the years. The fairy tales I learned as a child are different from the ones you might know.
We will be learning what makes these kinds of stories enduring, and about how they change over time. We will see what makes these types of stories unique or special. And we will learn what it takes to write our own fairy tale stories, mixing up pieces from lots of different fairy tales to make them new and exciting. This is called a "fractured fairy tale" because they are silly and broken up.
Are you ready to enter a world full of magic? Let's go!
Image attribution:
Paul Bica from Toronto. 22 June 2008, 18:53. Infrared photograph of Burwash Hall, Toronto, on a summer evening. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evening_at_Burwash_Hall.jpg.
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