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JaNell
Registered User
(1/7/03 9:37:24 pm)
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Fairy Tales written by children?
My five year old has written an amazingly gruesome and funny fairy tale about an ogre. He "wants it made into a book so other kids can learn from it". This frightens me terribly.
Jane, Terri, anyone who cares to answer, did y'all write stories like that as small children?
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cpe
Unregistered User
(1/7/03 9:51:10 pm)
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scary stories by children
yes. The first one was called The Thugliwhelmer.
Now just remind me why a child writing grusome and funny stories is scary to her supposedly always very unfrightening parent? (grin)
all best
cpe
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JaNell
Registered User
(1/7/03 10:14:29 pm)
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Creative maniac
*Sigh*
Ro is already a rather prolific painter. If he's writing a lot, too, I don't know *how* I'll keep up, especially if I'm searching for markets for Fairy Tales written by children.
And his mindset...
Examples (for some reason, he says these weird things on car trips):
Age three, almost four - "Mama, Da, remember the time I was a fetus in your uterus, mama?" (I expected him to follow up with, "Those were good times, weren't they?")
Then, four going on five - "Did I tell you the story of the
little boy who killed his whole family? But it wasn't me."
And a few months later - "Mama, when you die, all alone, don't
worry. I'll bury you in the back yard. I love you, mama."
I guess he's obviously destined to write horror...
I hope.
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DonnaQ
Registered User
(1/7/03 11:27:43 pm)
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Re: Creative maniac
The little boy who used to live next door to me used to come and sit on my steps and tell me stories...
He's 5 or maybe 6, and one of his favorite topics is vampires. He had a running commentary on a whole family of them that lived in the tree by my house. His characters were very consistent and he seemed to effortlessly keep track of the chronolgy in his mind. It never failed to amaze (and impress) me...
At times it got a bit (creatively) gruesome, but there was never
any talk of burying bodies in the back yard!
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(1/8/03 4:35:06 am)
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My early work
My first whole project was called Candy Cane Island. It had a gameboard and a song for which I wrote both music and lyrics:
Where is the Candy Cane Island?
Where in the world can it be?
Right into dreamland, across the canal
Just come and follow me.
There is Santa Claus' summer home,
And Jack Frost lives there, too. . . <the rest thankfully forgotten.>
My second was a musical play for the second grade. We were all different talkging, singing vegetables. I played the lead carrot. The finale was a salad.
Horror was never my bag.
Jane
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swood
Registered User
(1/8/03 6:08:40 am)
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Re: My early work
My first story was called Stacy's Unicorn and it was an epic saga based on what was told me about the movie version of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, which I had neither seen nor read, only heard about from my best friend Staci. Since my family was very religious and objected to fantasy, it was something that I hid along with books of fairy tales and ghost stories that I would sneak home from the library.
I was also obsessed with the furniture coming to life and kidnapping me, along with the variety of monsters that lived in my dreams. Luckily an angel with a flaming sword lived in my closet to protect me from all harm. It was almost as terrifying as the monsters, though, and not lightly called.
Sarah
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Jess
Unregistered User
(1/8/03 7:07:02 am)
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Child stories
In Kindergarten, my now 8 year old entered a writing contest, the winner of which was to get his book published. The book had to also have illustrations. His story "The Ninjas that won the war" was all about how these Ninjas snuck into the enemy's tents and killed them while they were sleeping. It was complete with gruesome illustrations of blood spurting all over. My son knew nothing of Ninjas, history of warfare, nor do we watch T.V., but came up with this on his own. Needless to say, he didn't win the contest.
Jess
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JaNell
Registered User
(1/8/03 7:34:55 pm)
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Writer, Serial Killer, Whichever
I love these stories!
They do give some comfort. Maybe (all the knives are missing).
I didn't write stories when I was small. I wrote poetry, and poked at things in the ground a lot, and did rude things with/to my Barbies.
Ro's fairy take is called "The Story of the Little Boy and the Mean Ogre" and follows the classic "three times" scenario with a twisted end where the little boy gets what's coming to him for bothering a Mean Ogre.
My favorite line from it is:
The Mean Ogre answered with, "Go away or I'll juice your eyeballs for my soup!"
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cpe
Unregistered User
(1/8/03 8:42:04 pm)
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children's creativity
I think you have a wonderful little boy. Very creative, very uninhibited. I have a little five year old grandson who tells stories abou mummies who live under the bed. He is very focussed on "bad guys" right now and doing various kind of squiching crushing and murdrizing of them.
I don't know if this is partly a reflection of times we live in (children do cross-fertilize each other at school regardless of what YOU teach them at home.) In psych we sometimes think that chldren draw and make sories to deal with all manner of things that are real in their worlds.
all best
cpe
jane I have been a flower in kinnygarten wearing a hospital green crepe paper skirt over my head that chafed. I am sorry we did not know each other then, we could have had something like The Farmer MacGregor's-Yolen's Garden Revue. In Spanish and English. And Yiddish. And Russian.
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(1/10/03 2:01:27 am)
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Big grin
cpe wrote:"I am sorry we did not know each other then, we could have had something like The Farmer MacGregor's-Yolen's Garden Revue. In Spanish and English. And Yiddish. And Russian. "
Now THAT I would have liked to have seen!<G>
Jane
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Nalo
Registered User
(1/13/03 1:57:39 pm)
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Re: Big grin
Ja Nell, I think you should consider printing up a couple of copies of your son's story as a limited edition. It sounds great. I wrote almost no fiction until I was in my thirties and could get away with saying what I pleased. But the two stories I remember writing as a youngster were
1) a murder mystery about a vampire killer when I was about ten
2) a gruesome science fiction poem when I was about sixteen, which hinged entirely on the hideous word-play "nothing can sustain life forever."
I think I understand your son. There's just something about being able to invent the macabre, particularly when you're little...
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JaNell
Registered User
(1/13/03 3:41:57 pm)
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Limited Editions
Oddly enough, Ro's already done his first "book signing" for the "Mean Ogre" story.
He signed a copy for Ellen K. at *her* book signing here yesterday.
Ro drew illustrations on the front for her, and yes, of course I have pictures of that.
(The Unitarian service that Ellen hosted here yesterday was great, btw. It was fun seeing her again.)
Somewhere, in my box o'art, I have my older son's first comics. The dinosaurs *always* won, in his alternate history comics.
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