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Jerry Pinkney: A Tribute
We here at Calling Caldecott are tremendously sad to learn about the death yesterday of author-illustrator Jerry Pinkney at the age of 81. As noted in the NPR obituary, released last night, Pinkney illustrated over one hundred books in his magnificent career, which began in 1964 with the publication of...
Transformers: What Fairy Tales Tell
I don’t retell fairy tales. They retell me. Over and over again they tell me who I am, how I feel, what I believe.This process of self-discovery happens every time I write a poem, but it seems to happen most acutely when I throw on Red Riding Hood’s cloak or...
What Makes a Good Fractured Fairy Tale?
Primary school–age children are ripe for enjoying literary parody, and fractured fairy tales are a great introduction. By this time,
ideally at least, kids have listened to or read many of the classic old tales: “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” et al.It’s that familiarity with the original...
Transformers: How Did Snow White Survive in That Glass Coffin?
I often write novels based on fairy tales, folktales, myths, and religious stories. They attract me for three reasons. They have stood the test of time, and I want to harness that power. Their plots grip me so hard I can barely breathe. They challenge me: how do I interest...
On the Rainbow Trail
by Gerald McDermottI’ve been on a journey past paper mountains, flying men, foolish spiders, talking trees, and the flaming arrows of the solar fire. It has been a journey of discovery through the bizarre and exotic forms of world mythology. The Rainbow Trail has become a path for my work...
Ask Rapunzel roundup
This week on Out of the Box, guest columnist Rapunzel has been helping readers with fairy-tale dilemmas, from marital woes to unruly enchanted objects. Who needs a fairy godmother with Rapunzel around? Don't miss her columns:Snarky stepchildrenFamily mattersGood-for-nothing crittersA cave of one's ownBoor or bear?"Be Our Guest"? Not so muchFor...
World folklore and fairy tales
From the depths of the jungles to Middle Eastern marketplaces to magical fairy forests, the following books span diverse settings. The stories illustrate just how effectively narrative can represent and transmit different cultures’ traditions, heritage, mythos, and history.In Odile Weulersse’s Nasreddine, Mustafa and his son Nasreddine set out for the...
Some Pigs! What Makes a Good Three Little Pigs?
Once upon a time . . . there was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. The first that went off met a man with a bundle of straw, and said to him:...
Krik, Krik, Krik: How Aardema & Co. Attuned Us to African Folklore
Richard Dorson, the late dean of American folklorists, had a word for folklore that was not authentic, not the voice of the people. He called it fakelore, and to his mind most folklore published for children fell into that category.Dorson and other folklorists didn’t concern themselves with “Cinderella” and the...
A Tale Out of Time
By Nancy WillardI recently asked my students in a class on the history of fairy tales a simple question: What was your favorite fairy tale when you were growing up, and how did you find it? Or, to put it differently, how did that particular tale find you? These are...
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