by Shonna | Sep 11, 2020 | Cinderella's Dress, Listen To This
This is a sample of my newsletter. If you’d like to subscribe, sign up below. I learn so many interesting things while I’m researching fairy tales and history. If you were sitting at my kitchen table while was working, I would turn to you and say…listen to this:...
by Shonna | Sep 4, 2020 | Listen To This
This is a sample of my newsletter. If you’d like to subscribe, sign up below. I learn so many interesting things while I’m researching fairy tales and history! Listen to this: History quote My most recent antique purchase is a Ladies’ Home Journal from 1912. The...
by Shonna | Jun 22, 2020 | Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Available now in print and ebook! Click here to choose your store. Excerpt: At first blush, Grimms’ fairy tales are some strange stories. Adults plot against children. A knocked-off head can be reattached with a life-giving root. And the amount of rust on a knife will...
by Shonna | Apr 15, 2020 | Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers! As an author and a homeschooling mom for the past fourteen years, I’ve learned a thing or two about getting kids to write. These workbooks are designed to not only work on writing skills, but logic as well....
by Shonna | Feb 25, 2020 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
February 26 is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, often affectionately shortened to Fairy Tale Day. Here are some fun ways to celebrate telling fairy tales: 1. Tell a Fairy Tale through Group Storytelling Story Cube Prompts Use Story Cubes as prompts to retell a fairy...
by Shonna | Feb 22, 2020 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
All of last year I read through Grimms’ Fairy Tales and analyzed them from a writer’s perspective. #GRIMMread2019 Fifty-two blogs later, I’m revisiting my thoughts, organizing them, and collecting them into a book on how to write a fairy tale. This...
by Shonna | Dec 26, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
It’s the final week in our #GRIMMread2019 challenge! Wow, we’ve read a lot of stories: two hundred and ten fairy tales; four a week until these last few weeks when we read five. There is still a bonus set of stories that I’ll talk about later (the deleted stories) but...
by Shonna | Dec 20, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
I’m surprised there are not more examples of royals in disguise from the Grimm stories. Specifically, I’m talking about royals who dress like commoners for a twist reveal at the end. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Poverty and Humility Lead to Heaven Types of royals in...
by Shonna | Dec 16, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
We are winding down the #GRIMMread2019 challenge. This week we have five stories instead of the usual four. This takes us to number 200, and the end of the main section of stories. The final two weeks we’re reading the stories grouped together as “the children’s...
by Shonna | Dec 7, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
This week we read a story that seemed awfully familiar to two other stories we’ve already read (three others if you include Cinderella, but Cinderella doesn’t quite fit all the elements in these stories.) Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Drummer Three nights. Three...
