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GRIMMread2019 Week 18 Challenge and Linky Party (Jorinde and Joringel + more)

by Shonna | May 2, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

We are already up into the 70s in our reading of Grimm’s Fairy tales! 69: Jorinde and Joringel70: The Three Sons of Fortune71: How Six Men got on in the World72: The Wolf and the Man 69: Jorinde and Joringel 70: The Three Sons of Fortune 71: How Six Men got on...

Lessons from Grimm: Palace Intrigue

by Shonna | Apr 27, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

The most popular fairy tales seem to involve royalty and romance with a good dose of palace intrigue. (Think of the most famous tales: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White) This week, two of the Grimm’s Fairy tales we read are firmly set in this royalty genre:...

GRIMMread2019 Week 17 Challenge and Linky Party (All-Kinds-of-Fur + more)

by Shonna | Apr 25, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

65: All-Kinds-of-Fur66: The Hare’s Bride67: The Twelve Huntsmen68: The Thief and His Master

Lessons from Grimm: Tests of Three

by Shonna | Apr 20, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

Three of the four stories we read this week contained variations on the Tests of Three trope. In these stories we find: Character TestInheritance TestMarry the Princess Test All in sets of three. All involving three brothers, the youngest being called a Simpleton who...

GRIMMread2019 Week 16 Challenge and Linky Party (The Queen Bee + more)

by Shonna | Apr 17, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

After the epic story last week, we’ve got four shorter stories to read this week: 61: The Little Peasant62: The Queen Bee63: The Three Feathers64: The Golden Goose

Lessons from Grimm: Death and Resurrection

by Shonna | Apr 13, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge

I kept going back and forth between which topic to talk about this week. My first thought was DRAGONS as we had our first dragon story in the Grimm collection. But it was the first, so I have nothing else to compare it to yet. The Two Brothers fairy tale by Grimm And...

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SHONNA SLAYTON is the author of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of young adult novels, beginning with Cinderella’s Dress. She edited curriculum for an education company before homeschooling her own children using literature-based whole book learning. She’s taught writing using fairy tales in school classrooms and workshops, as well as in public libraries as a writer in residence. Instead of seeing her in person, you can get the Lessons from Grimm Series which includes a writer’s guide and workbooks for writers to learn fiction techniques through fairy tales.