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Re-Writing a fairytale!

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  • 05-01-2011 8:38pm
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    swizzle123
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Hey,

    I have to re-write a childrens fairytale and make a book for it! I am soo not good at this sort of thing! Anyone have an ideas of a story I could re-write and how??!
    Thanks!!!:D


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,189 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If you'd asked us six months ago... :)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055928167


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    swizzle123
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭swizzle123


    thanks so much! Had a quick glance there must go have a proper look now!! Did i mention it has to be suitable for children under six????!:D


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    pickarooney
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    You did not mention that. But they grow up so fast these days...


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    swizzle123
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭swizzle123


    pickarooney wrote: »
    You did not mention that.

    Whoops my bad!!!:P
    Ya this is so true!!!


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    Mardy Bum
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    Read some Angela Carter she is a very good source.


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    bdeb
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    re fairy tales,
    I have tried to adapt a few such as Goldilocks and Little Red Riding hood. I must say they were only spontanious writings and drawings.
    You can see them on Redbubble my gallery is called BarryB

    They may give you a bit of inspiration, Bdeb

    Ps. not sure if they come under art or writings


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    MiniSquish
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    You could take a classic fairytale and put a twist on it, such as Cinderella and write it like the stepsisters were actually the injured parties or something. I did that once for an essay in primary school :) and the teachers seemed to love it.


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    smcgiff
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    Rewriting fairy tales almost seems like the norm these days.

    How about Hansel & Gretel somehow avoid getting lost on their second trip into the woods, and when their parents make a third attempt the children are clever enough to get the parents lost, the kids make it back (following moss on trees learned from a travelling scholar paying for his stay by telling stories) and the parents end up at the ginger bread house and aren't so lucky :D


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    pickarooney
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    Hansel and Gretel's father was the biggest arsehole in the Grimm canon. The man needs to pay.


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    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Student_FairyTales/WebProject/Fairy%20Tales/Company%20of%20Wolves.htm

    Great example in the above link.


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