There's a lot of new threads today! Anyway, I actually wrote a novel based on Hansel and Gretel and submitted it to a contest this summer. (I was going to put it on Inkwell but then realized that 100 pages would literally kill the Chatterbox.) I might be able to put it on NaNo...I'm not sure. Anyways ya...

Hi,

I really like fairy/folk tales, and fairy tale re-telles. A good podcast of fairy tales re-telles is 'Girl Tales', which makes the female character the hero of the story. 

My favorite fairy tale is probably Swan Lake, the origanal story, not the ballet re-tell. Though the ballet is also good it doesn't tell the story in the same way, because all the emotions are told by the body and not the face, which is problimatic for me. 

Has anybody read the Land of Stories here? If you haven't I would recommend you, its about a pair od twins that discover a fairy tale dimention and have all kinds of adventers there. It a bit like Harry Potter. 

I love fairy tales! I have a book of the original Grimm Brothers fairy tales, which is so cool. Hans Christian Anderson is awesome too, I read part of a biography about him. My favorite fairy tale is the original version of The Little Mermaid, I just love how it's written!

Honestly I don't like fairy tales much anymore, but I used to really enjoy reading this old, musty, falling-apart, huge book of fairy tales that my grandparents kept at their house. It had a lot of stories I'd never heard of before.

I'm also interested in the original versions of them, often they're much more tragic than the Disney version. For example, in Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, it ends with the prince marrying the fake Ariel, (and Ariel quite heroically forgiving her) Ariel dying and becoming a wind-spirit thing, and the evil sea witch presumably keeping her voice. The original Sleeping Beauty is even weirder...

Also, in 4th grade we had to write our own spinoff fairy tale. I did mine on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but I forgot what it was about.

I love Land of Stories!! Also I really love Shannon Hale's adaptation of 'The Goose Girl'! It's part of the 'Books of Bayern' series!

Has anyone else read the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer? They're sci-fi-ish retellings of various fairy tales, but of course with some added twists. The first one, Cinder, is a retelling of Cinderella, and I don't remember the order of the others, but there's Red (Little Red Riding Hood), Cress (Rapunzel), and Winter (Snow White). I read them a while ago, so I don't remember all the details, but I remember them being really good!

Another fairy tale retelling I've read recently was Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell, which is a magical-steampunk retelling of Cinderella, and which I also loved! There's also a sequel, Venturess, which isn't a retelling of anything but continues the story from Mechanica.

All of these involve the "damsels in distress" being self-sufficient and saving themselves!

I love the Lunar Chronicles!  They blend fairy tales and sci-fi so well.  Does anybody know why fairy tales are called fairy tales?  Because they aren't nessicarily about fairies...  And has anybody read A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz?  Those are fun retellings of the original Grimm stories.

In English class, we have an assignment about fairy tales. We got to pick the fairy tales, and there were some options for a big project, and one of them was to do a modern retelling of your chosen fairy tale. We could also pick our groups because of Covid, so I'm in one with two of my best friends. 

Yeah, so, I get to write a modern Three Little Pigs... as The Three Quarantined Pigs.

It's going to be so much FUN. >:) :D

Oh my sister has steeped herself and in turn me in fairy tales...

So now I'm working on a rewrite of Rapunzel that ha a dragon (shapeshifts into a kid) bounty hunter, being hunted by rock monsters with curses on them

oh no I've run out of time. I'll tell you better later.