Your Fractured Fairy Tale - Understanding Fairy Tales: Home

In this libguide you can find lots of resources about:

Conventions of fairy tales

History of fairy tales

Four of the famous fairy tale writers:

• The Brothers Grimm

• Hans Christian Andersen

• Charles Perrault

• Joseph Jacobs

Find out more about the following Fairy Tales:

• Bluebeard

• Hansel and Gretel

• Jack and the Beanstalk

• Little Red Riding Hood

• Princess and the Pea

• Rumpelstiltskin

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Special thanks to Kayla Reed for her Fairy Tales LibGuide at MSSU.

• Write your own fractured fairy tale
• Include dialogue between characters
• Copy the major types of events from each story
• Ask yourself about the lesson the fairy tale teaches
  • Never give up
  • Be kind to everyone, even if it doesn't help you at first
  • Try to figure out how to do something and stay within the rules
• Find a way to modernize the story or put a twist on it
• Pick a story that appeals to you, not necessarily one that is featured here