Fairytales and health

G’Day everyone! This is my fourth post, and I would like to explore a little bit the emotional outcomes of reading and writing fairytales and other stories in the classroom. Fairytales are usually seen as something innocent, created for children by adults, with the only aim of being amusing. Sometimes, we try and go deeper […]

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The different character motifs we may find in every tale

Hello everyone!! Nice to meet you here one week more! As you may have noticed because of the topics the majority of the last posts were about, these two last weeks we have been working on one of the most important elements and resources in Children’s Literature: tales. According to Wikipedia, tales are “generally short […]

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RUINING YOUR CHILDHOOD IN 3, 2, 1… The original stories behind the tales we know

Once upon a time, the marvelous and beautiful children tales that have filled our imagination with fantastic and charming stories and characters when we were little (Cinderella, Pinochio or Snow White…) were full of violence, darkness, misfortune, cruelty and evilness. Those horrific stories were originally passed on orally from generation to generation until some writers, […]

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