The Bremen-Town Musicians (Adaptation)
Content:
The Bremen Town Musicians
Illustrator:
Ilse Plume
Ilse Plume
Publication:
1980 by Doubleday
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
32
Current state:
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Here in a delightful retelling is the classic story of a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster who join forces when their masters decide they have grown too old to be useful. Running away, the animals meet on the road and resolve to go to Bremen-Town and become street Musicians, braying, barking, meowing, and crowing in concert. On the way they find a cozy cabin, but there are robbers inside. How can the four friends scare away the robbers and have the cabin for themselves?
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Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
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Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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