Did you know that this was actually a fairy tale? Well, I didn’t. The actual story of Puss in Boots follows almost the same theme as when I saw him on TV; he basically uses trickery to help his master win the hand of a princess. Nice of him, but I get the feeling that the cat wasn’t always as sweet as you might think since he’s a little kitty wearing black boots. I’ve got to wonder what the original…
Let me tell you that is one of the luckiest dogs in the world, depending on how you look at it. I mean, what kind of person runs to the store to get beer for their dog? Old Mother Hubbard is one of those nursery rhymes that you learn real young, but never really understand till you are much older. I was reading this to my daughter and I was caught by how this woman was buying her dog a…
All these stories that take the genius of looking through the eyes of a toy (Toy Story, Pinocchio, The Nutcracker Prince, Babes in Toyland), are fun for me. Have you ever seen a kid (like Sid from Toy Story) be a little too rough with their toys and cringe? What drew me to The Nutcracker Prince when I was a little girl, was the romance of the story of a girl who helps the Prince defeat the evil rat and…
I’ve never been to Niagara Falls, but this story caught my eye when I was researching posts for this challenge. The Maid of the Mist legend starts with a woman who is miserable because she lost her husband at a young age. But when she decides to take her own life, she is spotted and saved by a god of Thunder, who takes her to his home where she eventually falls in love with his son. My first reaction to…
Why is it, so often in these stories that the woods symbolize something evil and scary? Why does the wolf have to be the bad guy? How many of you out there have ever dressed up as Little Red for Halloween? I think we should swap it up this morning. Let’s say we take Little Red and have her skipping down the path to her mother’s friend’s house because her mother has sent her there with a basket full of…