For this week’s reading I chose English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs. What I really enjoyed
about these tales is that most of them were familiar tales that I have heard before
in my own childhood. The Story of the Three Little Pigs follows along with the children’s story I heard when
I was little but, the original version goes a little further that the wolf not
being able to get into the brick house. The wolf tries to trick the pig to
leave his house so that he can eat him. I could possible add in some more ways
the wolf could try to trick the pig or even switch the plot to where the wolf
is the good guy. In the tale, The Old Woman and Her Pig, the story is told in a cumulative manner, very
similar to one of my favorite children’s books There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. It might be a
little hard to get it to rhyme and flow like the children’s book but it would
be fun to try to recreate the tale to mirror the children’s book. Another tale
I could recreate is Cap o’ Rushes,
the tale is about a girl whose father throws her out for a very ridiculous
reason so she goes and finds another place to live. But instead of presenting
herself in her beautiful gown, the girl disguises herself in mud and muck. Three
dances are thrown and everyone is invited but the girl pretends to not want to
go. She then cleans herself up and goes to each dance where the master’s son of
the house she works in falls in love with her. She ends up revealing to him who
she is and they get married and live happily ever after. In another student’s
story they had done a creative writing technique where they did a diary of the
main character. I think it would be fun to create a dairy of what was going on
in the girl’s mind during the three dances and if she was really falling in
love with the son?
The children's book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Source: Flickr by Ged Carroll
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