The Beanstalk and Beyond: Developing Critical Thinking Through Fairy Tales
Use popular fairy tales and fairy-tale characters to help students develop problem-solving abilities, persuasive speaking, and creative writing skills.
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Guides)
"The Canterbury Tales" was the first great poem in the English language, and it remains a favorite among students and scholars to this day. Ideal for research, this new title in the "Bloom's Guides" series includes broad-ranging excerpts from interpretive essays that provide expert commentary on this timeless work. It also features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a bibliography, and an index.
Children's tales collection of German origin fairy tales were first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It had popularised fairy tales which had in part been taken from the Italian fairy tale writers G. Basile and G.-F. Straparola. The text of this book is based on the edition of "Grimm’s household tales with the author’s notes" by Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, translated into English by Margaret Hunt (G. Bell & Sons, London, 1910, 564 Pages). The Margaret Hunt’s translation had been done very true and close to the German original.
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Fishy Tales takes a journey through a coral reef, where kids can watch small fish swim in and out of the coral and jellyfish float up and down in the waves.