tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post969424714260581249..comments2024-03-27T06:42:26.250-07:00Comments on Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Fairytale Reflections (20) Ellen RennerKatherine Langrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-50859420324890207472011-02-14T02:31:30.977-08:002011-02-14T02:31:30.977-08:00Kate, that's a brilliant tactic!Kate, that's a brilliant tactic!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-23279592493094212832011-02-13T13:23:52.440-08:002011-02-13T13:23:52.440-08:00Happy sigh. I love this series!
Middle school lib...Happy sigh. I love this series!<br /><br />Middle school librarian Ms. Yingling (of Ms. Yingling Reads) recently posted about her ingenious program, Boys Read Pink, in which she openly recruits the boys at her school to read "girl books." Here's the link: http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2011/02/boys-read-pink.html<br /><br />As for me, when I do a school visit about my "princess book," I point out that it's an adventure story and show the boys how to make a fake book jacket covered with dripping blood and dragons, renaming the book To the Death. They love it!<br /><br />So it sometimes helps to fight the trend head-on, and with humor.Kate Coombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138566291199003171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-36332998013245077592011-02-12T02:52:25.253-08:002011-02-12T02:52:25.253-08:00Wonderful post.
There are so many strong and co...Wonderful post. <br /><br />There are so many strong and complex female fairy tale characters, and it's odd that we must go to the not quite so well known tales to find them. <br /> <br />As always, this Friday series is expanding my ever-growing list of books to read. I look forward to getting my hands "Castle of Shadows."Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-42579308626009993612011-02-11T15:10:30.297-08:002011-02-11T15:10:30.297-08:00Oh how I love these Friday blogs.
They bring back ...Oh how I love these Friday blogs.<br />They bring back so many childhood memories but also raise so many interesting angles and points for me as an adult looking back on them.<br />One of the reasons I started writing as a young girl was because the insipid princesses annoyed me so. Of course there were exceptions but rare in the anthologies I was reading, and the active heroine was never a princess. I used to rewrite fairytales, painstakingly type them out on a manual typewriter, roll the pages into a scroll and tie with a red ribbon, and present them to my younger sister.Jo Treggiarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02417288480274268189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-55257266464339160042011-02-11T13:16:52.203-08:002011-02-11T13:16:52.203-08:00I'm all for heroines. But boys do seem to be t...I'm all for heroines. But boys do seem to be turned off by princesses. In my Seven Wonders books (promoted for 9-12 boys), they happily read the ones with heroines except for the third which had the word "princess" in the blurb. Never mind she was an Amazon princess who rode a horse and swung a sword... because they never got that far. Princesses are girly!<br /><br />(Wrote a longer comment, but Blogger swallowed it - grrr.)Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.com