by Shonna | Apr 4, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
The following are this week’s Grimm stories for the #GRIMMread2019. We’re reading through all of Grimm’s Fairy Tales this year, slowly but surely! 53: Little Snow White54: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn55: Rumpelstiltskin56: Sweetheart...
by Shonna | Mar 30, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge, Teaching Writing
Grimm’s fairy tales are told in omniscient POV where the “camera” is viewing everything from the outside. The result is an impersonal, objective way of storytelling. We don’t know the internal dialogue or feelings of the characters other than what we imagine them to...
by Shonna | Mar 27, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge, Spindle
This week we’re reading some more popular stories: 49: The Six Swans50: Little Briar-Rose (see also Sleeping Beauty)51: Foundling-Bird52: King Thrushbeard
by Shonna | Mar 23, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
I’ve tried to avoid blogging about the grim parts of the Brother’s Grimm fairy tales, but this week is almost impossible. I could talk about the goofy stories we read this week instead: how dogs fare very well in these fairy tales, and Old Sultan is no exception....
by Shonna | Mar 19, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Dipping back into a bit of comedy and a bit of horror with Grimm this week…. 45: Thumbling’s Travels 46: Fitcher’s Bird47: The Juniper Tree48: Old Sultan
by Shonna | Mar 16, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Three of the four stories we read this week shared plot elements with each other, so I thought I’d analyze them in terms of decisions authors make in storytelling. When writing a novel, sometimes you have a clear direction where the plot is going. You’ve either...
by Shonna | Mar 13, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Short stories this week! Here’s the list: 41: Herr Korbes42: The Godfather43: Frau Trude44: Godfather Death
by Shonna | Mar 9, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Small beings are natural inhabitants in Fairyland. No one is surprised when a child is born only the size of a thumb. And if one suddenly come across a person of this size, they think nothing of it…or rather, they think of how to profit from one so tiny. Thumbling Nor...
by Shonna | Mar 5, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
We’re reading these stories this week: 37: Thumbling 38: The Wedding of Mrs. Fox 39: The Elves or The Elves and the Shoemaker 40: The Robber Bridegroom
by Shonna | Mar 3, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
In this week’s reading for #GRIMMread2019 I’m zooming in on the magical items in story #36: The Magic Table, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack. This was an amusing story about a father who angrily drives away each of his sons after he thinks they lie to him...
