by Shonna | Nov 15, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Several Grimm stories have mentioned wise women in terms that sound very much like fairy godmothers. Grimm’s Fairy tales: The Goose-Girl at the Well In this week’s story, The Goose-Girl at the Well, the old woman who is helping the banished princess is a wise...
by Shonna | Nov 6, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Many of Grimm’s animal fairy tales are pourquoi tales (pourquoi is French for why). Pourquoi tales tell the origin story of how something in nature came to look or act the way it does. Grimm’s Fairy tales: The Sole Now available in print and ebook. In last...
by Shonna | Oct 29, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
It’s night, you’re tired and hungry, and you see a light coming from a hut in the forest. Do you go in? If you are a fairy tale character, of course you go in! Why wouldn’t you seek lodging with a stranger living deep in the woods? It worked out well for Snow White…...
by Shonna | Oct 19, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Buy now in print or ebook. One thing the Grimm fairy tales do very well is create empathy for the underdog. The discharged soldier is not just out of work, but he is also extremely poor, starving, without prospects, and lying by the side of the road. The picked-on...
by Shonna | Oct 11, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Not having read The Glass Coffin before, I had expected a take on Snow White. What a pleasant surprise to read something so different from other fairy tales. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Glass Coffin The Glass Coffin just might be the closest example to modern...
by Shonna | Oct 6, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
As we near the end of the #GRIMMread2019 challenges, I’ve started branching out and reading other books about the Grimms and their fairy tales. It seems a lot of modern literary criticism looks down on the Grimms—especially how they didn’t give credit by name to the...
