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The Bully: A Discussion and Activity Story is a 40-page children's story and activity book by Rita Y. Toews published in 2003. The story focuses on giving children a voice as to how bullying makes them feel, and educates parents on how to handle a bully situation in a positive manner. The book can be used in a classroom, one-on-one with a ...
English Fairy Tales is a book containing a collection of 41 fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and entails a variety of fairy tales featuring mythical creatures , heroic figures, and moral lessons .
Evelyn Sharp was born in 1869 and was the ninth of eleven children. She had three years of schooling in London, where she made her living. Evelyn's first publication was an article about fairy tales which led to Wymps and other Fairy Tales (1896) and All The Way To Fairyland (1898).
English fairy tales, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Subcategories
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [ 4 ]
"The classic fairy tale was appropriated to serve the purpose of socializing children," writes Tatar, and "the Grimms seem to have favored violence over whimsy." Violence, in the right context, was considered funny to young readers, while explicit references to sex were perceived as superfluous to the story, providing neither moral guidance nor ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
My Own Self, Me Aan Sel or Ainsel is a Northumbrian fairy tale collected by the folklorist Joseph Jacobs. A version of the tale appears in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1137 (Self Did It), similar to the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus,. [1]