Reading Notes[[Jacob's Europa's Fairy Book, Part B]]

[SOME SPOILERS]

The Youngest Maiden-Pinterest

1. The Seven Maidens: Invisibility cap-competition whoever wins, wins the cap. The Maidens are the judges. 

• Come up with challenges.
• Make it like a modern competition show.

Make up reason why the swan left her husband. There is a gap and no reasoning for her to abandon the husband she learned to love and her children.

• Why did she put the robe on again, especially after the acceptance of her husband and life.

2. Androcles and the Lion: Epic hero saves lion and gets a lifelong companion. Fights his slave owner for freedom.

• Androcles has the lion and the slave owner has a different animal.
• Look up other animal that are common in Roman literature.
• Look up Roman names.
• Epic Gladiator type scene.

3. A Visitor from Paradise: I was a little confused by the last sentence; "It was and it was not." So, there is a possibility they didn't live happily ever after?

Johnnie,Grizzle and the Witch-BlazPorenta

• Maybe the robber came back for more stuff or came to give back the horse? Hmm..the possibilities really are endless.

4. Inside Again: So gratitude did not win out. 

• Make up people that something similar to the original story happens to them.

Give a lesson about self-preservation by putting the focus on what the snakes says in the folktale.

5. Johnnie and Grizzle: Hansel and Gretel. I definitely recognized this version of the story. Only instead of bread crumbs at the beginning its pebbles. Instead of finding there way back home multiple times, they get lost at the very beginning. That is when they stumbled on a trader that thinks the pebbles are magic sent by a witch to trick both Johnnie and Grizzle. They don't believe it and ultimately meet there fate in the Gingerbread House.

6. Thumbkin: Thumbelina (SP)! I haven't read or seen this movie in ages!.......EWWWWW.

Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916) Europa's Fairy Book