Traditional Literature is such a comfort zone for me. It's always comforting when the story begins, "Once upon a time..." and it ends, "And they lived happily ever after." Stories like that is what they teach in schools to children. So a few parents would think that it's the original version that their children are learning. It's fun to see twists or the other side of a story to knownstories. My favorite would be The True Story of the 3 Pigs. It allows the readers to see what the wolf has to say to what happened. I really enjoyed the ideas the book shared about sharing and discussing traditional literature with students. You could allow them to do storytelling, story maps, literary element charts, a Venn Diagram, use puppets, or write a newspaper. I think kids will enjoy writing a newspaper a lot. That will be the time they can write whatever they choose to based on the story. With Traditional Literature, it can be entertaining and also have a moral, like Aseop's Fables.
After reading Path of Needles or Pins, I would have never thought that fairy tales would be so bloody and horrifying. After reading the story, it had me thinking about other stories. Did Goldilocks and The Three Bears end the way it did? What about Snow White? There are so many questions now. I'm going to need to look up all this stuff. It's crazy to think that fairy tales started off as being horrifying. Clearly these stories were meant for adults. Authors had to clean them up a lot for kids, but I don't think they should have used adult stories to make them into kids stories. When the kids grow up and find out the real versions, they are going to be so shocked and surprised.
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