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...
by Shonna | Nov 30, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Magical realism is a genre set in regular life, but where there is a little bit of magic. So, not a fairy tale land, where people know about fairies. Not a fantasy land where unicorns and dragons run free. But everyday, regular life where suddenly, something out of...
by Shonna | Nov 26, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
This week for our reading challenge, I was having trouble deciding which story to talk about. They were all so varied, yet interesting in their own rights. I looked for a commonality that I could talk about, and then realized I haven’t talked about setting yet!...
