by Shonna | Apr 10, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Read these stories this week (several websites have these stories available to read for free) and then add your blog response to the blog hop: 57: The Golden Bird58: The Dog and the Sparrow59: Frederick and Catherine60: The Two Brothers
by Shonna | Apr 6, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Let’s talk editing today. I’m in the final stages of publishing a prequel novella for my Cinderella books. Note: The preorder will be up this week, and if you want to read it before it goes on sale, sign up for my newsletter—click on Free Story above. At the time of...
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....
