Topic: My topic for my storybook this semester will be based off of English fairy tales. I hope that at least two of my stories have been heard of before, that way if I change them, it will be especially interesting for the reader. My other two stories will hopefully be new stories to the reader so that they will have some unknown material to read.
Bibliography:
1) English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacob (1890): This is where I pulled the Fairy Ointment story from that I really enjoyed!
2) More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1894)
Possible Styles:
One possible style is to do the storybook from the perspective of a fairy that would provide first person narrative throughout the storybook. The fairy could be directly involved some of the stories but also provide an opportunity to provide her own interesting thoughts on stories we already know that may not involve fairies (e.g. The Three Little Pigs).
Possible Styles:
One possible style is to do the storybook from the perspective of a fairy that would provide first person narrative throughout the storybook. The fairy could be directly involved some of the stories but also provide an opportunity to provide her own interesting thoughts on stories we already know that may not involve fairies (e.g. The Three Little Pigs).
Painting of a fairy by Sophia Gengembre Anderson (1869). The painting is called "Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things"
Source: Wikipedia
Another idea is to have a group of characters (not all human) gathered around as friends and each one tries to tell their best story in order to win a prize (I'd have to come up with a fun, magical, fairy tale-type prize - think: Canterbury Tales). This would be third person but would have plenty of dialogue of people chiming in.
An additional cool storytelling idea is a mother telling her young children the fairy tales so the children and mother could chime in continually to add extra dialogue throughout the stories. I think there could be a lot of potential for humor ehere since little kids by nature tend to say funny things. There was someone in my Indian Epics class who did this last semester and I would definitely want to make sure to vary from that, but I really like how they wrote their story - it was cute, funny, and reminded me of my own fond childhood memories. This would most likely to 3rd person although it could also be first person from the mother's perspective.
My final possible style is to do the storybook from the prespective of a newscaster. The newscaster could cover each story in third person in an informative format. The newscaster could direct the attention to someone "on the scene" and the storybook could flip from the anchor to the newscaster on site. Although I think this is a unique idea, I'm not so sure it would be the most fun to read. Being able to flip between people's perspectives (the anchor and on-site newscaster) could provide more than one perspective, however, which could be neat.
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