Diamonds and Toads features ideas, links, and suggestions about fairy tale research and writing. Wonderful illustrations too!
Why Diamonds and Toads? It's one of my favorite fairy tales. It involves questionable rewards, jewels and flowers and magic.
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Quick: What do "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Beauty and the Beast," all share? Radiantly lovely heroines? Yes. Nasty villainesses? Yes. Villainous fathers? Absolutely. Yes, villainous fathers. One of the most neglected characters in fairy tale...
Despite abundant cultural myths to the contrary, many, if not most fairy tales do not feature a passive heroine, waiting for hero prince to rescue her. "The Nixy" is one such tale. It seems to fall into the "girl saves boy or hero" classification,...
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When last my T390 class met, we were discussing the true intentions of the "wolf" in "Little Red Riding Hood." The wolf, is, of course, symbolic of predatory men. A reader doesn't need to be...
The Fairy Tale Cupboard is a must-read for me, because it's eye-friendly, well-researched, and well-written. Blogger Claire Massey has an outstanding post about "Goldilocks" and its history posted today. Claire also edits New Fairy Tales, an online...
Out of the blue, I remembered Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book. I read many of the color fairy tale books as a child, but I remember this one as my favorite of all of Lang's books. And my favorite story of my favorite color fairy tale book was The Glass...
