by Shonna | Jun 18, 2024 | Books, Fairy-tale Inheritance Books, Lessons From Grimm
Dear reader, The behind-the-scenes of publishing is constantly changing. In an effort to keep up and have a stronger foundation to survive the changes, I’ve opened up my own online bookstore. As a small business, I’m a one-woman operation and will strive...
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...
