Fairly Stupid Tales

Kids should read the story Tell-Tale Heart. Why wouldn't a reader want to read this story? Its not as bad as it seems. It's actually interesting . I think as a reader you will like it .

This charming story reverses the typical roles within a children’s book. With underlying issues of stereotypes, independence and empowerment, it fills children with imagination and teaches them the importance of being strong, smart, and the realization that beauty comes from within.

Jack Zipes in his book Relentless Progress : The Reconfiguration of Children 's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling puts forward a valid perspective that the act of a child reading any form of children’s literature is set up to promote “adult aims and the power of the market” (4). Although this perspective is important to remember when considering how the formation of childhood identity is guided and influenced by children’s literature, it is important to remember that the literature itself is not to blame. Adults, parents, teachers, guardians or other people of influence in a child’s life have the power to provide children with literature that contains many alternative encompassing views of the world to help shape the childs

If someone were to ask what your favorite book was as a kid, what would first come to mind? Ranging from Where the Wild Things Are to The Very Hungry Caterpillar to There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, the list is sure to swell as memories and moments flood back with your favorite pictures and characters making themselves known. Whatever the book, it’s likely everyone has special stories associated with their childhood, sitting and listening as their imaginations ran wild. However, I’m sure it’s not often that these beloved books are revisited past elementary school, yet it’s not rare that their significance still remains. Children’s books aren’t only valuable to the audiences they’re written for, but they’re a source of expression

Richard Robinson, the President and CEO of Scholastic Inc., the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, said that a great children’s text contains a simple and original idea, is written with humour and makes the world more interesting. Despite being published in 1928, A.A. Milne’s The House At Pooh Corner remains a highly effective children’s text. The text meets the criteria set out by Richard Robinson and it has been able to do so through its good uses of literary elements such as style, themes and characters. Some examples of this can be linked to the works of various developmental theorists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Erik Erikson.

This is a story that was created in May 1875. The story is The Gingerbread Man, it is consider a fairy tale. The story has been updated throughout the years. Back in the day it was told as a tale believed to make kids stay at home and away from strangers. It was also had many cultural belief that do not exist at this time.

This book is one of my favorites. There are so many aspects of this book that could be elaborated with children of all different ages. For example, after reading the story, I would split a first grade or even second grade classroom

Children love games, picture books and fun adventures and happily within this amazing book they will find all three! Sally has crafted an imaginative, thought-provoking book that will create hours of never-ending fun and delight for children.

This fun tale is still a favorite and has engaged children throughout the past years. The repetition and remembering are part of this story. The favorite line in the story is “You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man,” has the children repeating on each page. The gingerbread outwits many characters in the story until he reaches the fox and then he is tricked. This book for ages 4-8 and a fun way to bake a real gingerbread cookie and decorate using several decorations.

Classic fairy tales are getting closer to the adult genre. The children's author Diane Purkiss states that, “There has been a move toward seeing fairy tales as an adult, or any rate, a young adult dark sort of genre.” She also told BBC, “In the past, fairy tales were told by adults to adults, in William Shakespeare’s time.” This shows that classic fairy tales are meant more for adults to read not as much for children.

If you ask a child in America about The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Little Red Hen, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Beds, or The Emperor’s New Clothes, they would be able to recount the story without much trouble, as these are simple stories with entertaining hijacks. These are folklores that are read aloud in a kindergarten class, or for bedtime stories, yet not animated like Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty. These stories are even referenced in television series, such as Super Why!, a children’s series about altering books to end up with a better outcome. Some of these stories were developed in other regions, and they are altered to fit with the community’s values and thoughts, and this can be seen when comparing The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen with The Invisible Cloth by Don Juan Manuel.

There are many opinions floating around surrounding the topic of what makes a children’s book good. Is it the way it is written, the illustrations, does it coincide well with lessons taught in the classroom (Tunnell et al., 2012), or is it based on preference of the reader (Tunnell et al., 2012)? Three articles give insight as to what makes a children’s book good. The first article, Children’s Literature, edited by Charlotte S. Huck, Janet Hickman, and Frank Zidonis (1982) approach the question “What makes a children’s book good?” from the eyes of an author, and two editors (Zidonis et al., 1982). A second article, Remembering Ezra Jack Keats and the Snowy Day: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? by Nina Mikkelsen (1989) explores the book The Snowy Day and why it has stayed a modern classic

In the story, the four characters live in a maze, and everything in the maze is going well because the characters found a large source of cheese. This discovery was a breakthrough for these characters in the story. This was such a bug

Examine any two versions of a fairy-tale of your choice. Consider their intended audience, themes and motifs they have in common as well as distinguishing features of each version.

Hem and Haw refuse to move, and end up going hungry waiting for more cheese to come back to the original location. Hem finally moves on and discovers the location of a great cheese stash along with his friends Sniff and Scurry. The book never fully reveals whether or not Hem makes it out of cheese station C, but it exhibits how it is possible to discover better opportunities that come with change through the actions of Haw.