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

[SOME SPOILERS]

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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?

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• 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

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

[SOME SPOILERS]
1. The Cinder-Maid: I'm a little dumbfounded that Cinders father is actually a part of the story and furthermore does nothing of the abuse Cinder endures. Since his death has not happened I would like the father to take on a bigger role. I would like Ever After to be the basis and explain why he did not die a particular day changed Cinders fate. What would have happened if he died or survived in this case.

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• Change ending etc.
• Father has more active role in Cinders future.
• Tie in Ever After somehow.

Really put emphasis on magical nuts planted by an old wizard.

• Series of mishaps for Cinder before getting the right nuts.
• Explain how the tree came about.

How odd I never even considered a honey trap just seems strange and unfitting to this story. Okay, that foot scene is insanely drastic and gross just to fit a shoe, just to be queen.

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2. Beauty and the Beast: It kind of seemed like the father did the most un-father-like and coward thing by sacrificing his daughter to the Beast. What if he sends the oldest daughters, but the beasts find fault in them. Then in a desperate attempt to save sweet Bella he sacrifices himself (other daughters were selfish and etc).

• What if the Beast didn't change back?
• What if Bella never said "I love you"?
• A story of what ifs. Basically, what could have happened.

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3. The Language of Animals: There are a lot of similarities to Snow White.

• Draw more connections together from Snow White.
• The huntsman is actually a woman. They fall in love until she is killed by his father.
• Jack dies of heartbreak.

4. A Dozen at a Bow: What odd scenes and even a little gruesome at some points. At the same time its a really amusing story and funny. It just causes all sorts of mixed emotions. The wife goes from wanting to kill him to being proud of him in two sentences. Bring me drawn out story any day!

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5. The Earl of Cattenborough: Awe, what a cute story. I really think I could play with the idea of the cat being part of a royal court at one time, only he was dismissed from his position. in an attempt to gain status again. He tries to make Jack an Earl.

• Make cat male.
• Bent on status not the well being of Jack.

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