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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I've started to work Project Gutenberg into this blog, because I've found a number of lost fairy stories and books on it. I am a firm supporter of the project because I love old, lost stories . You can, for example, get all 14 Oz books on it.
Today, I...
I've been wanting to start making fairy-tale books and stories available to D&T visitors through use of Project Gutenberg. I know anyone can go there and find fairy tales, but I've tried to find some special treasures. The first is The Light Princess,...
I know I've been pushing EnchantedConversation.org a bit aggressively -- largely because it has been so difficult to figure out all of the ins and outs of being a non-profit, setting up the look, etc., that I have felt compelled to post about the...
Note: James Whitcomb Riley was inspired to write this poem by a young girl who did come to his family's house to stay. She worked in the house and she was known as "Allie." A typesetting error made her name into "Annie." In any case, a legendary poem...
Hello New Friends!
I thought I'd tell you a little about D&T, and its sister site, EnchantedConversation.org.
* This whole thing started three years ago, as an outgrowth of teaching a class on fairy tales and writing at Indiana University South Bend. I...
