- Grimms' fairy tales
- Disney
- Retelling/adaptations
- Fairytales come in and out of fashion, or get changed slightly to reflect the morals held in modern society.
5 relevant and inspiring quotes (from at least 3 texts)
- "Some people claim that fairy tales do not render “truthful” pictures of life as it is, and are therefore unhealthy."
- "Hansel and Gretel" begins realistically. The parents are poor, and they worry about how they will be able to take care of their children. Together at night they discuss their predicament, and how they can deal with it. Even taken on this surface level, the folk fairy tale conveys an important, although unpleasant, truth: poverty and deprivation do not improve man's character, but rather make him more selfish, less sensitive to the sufferings of others, and thus prone to embark on evil deeds. - The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim.
- "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exists, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten" - G. K. Chesterton
- "Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. We have an obligation not to bore our readers, but to make them need to turn the pages. One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading." - Neil Gaiman
- "Standing strongly within fairy tales of magic horses and glass slippers is a moral backbone. It's in a fairytale's DNA to have a strong moral lesson, a fight between good & evil, love and loss, and these lessons rub off on our children."
5 locations / senses of place that connect to your ideas
- libraries
- schools
- cinema
- homes
- book shops
5 websites
5 relevant and inspiring images
5 sketches
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