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I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.
Joanna Kulig
Me
School
Seven
Wings
Had
Performed
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Polish
Bee
Fixed
Eight
Played
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Kit Williams
Character
Book
Key
Painting
Sections
Divided
Through
Leads
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Five
Represents
Which
Us
Now
Actually
Here
Muse
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
Amanda Eliasch
Pumpkin
Everything
Costume
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Sale
Mice
Hollywood
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Caitlin Flanagan
Independence
Unwanted
Danger
Divorce
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Vulnerability
Being
Means
Meant
Novel
Orphaned
What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
Jack Zipes
Consider
Considered
See
Had
Myths
Development
Clearly
Tale
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tales
How
Cultures
Huge
Very
Huge Influence
Greeks
Modern
Influence
Romans
Which
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.
Megan Follows
Work
Hard Work
World
Parents
Saw
Tale
Performers
Obviously
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Were
Lot
Precarious
Committed
Going
Loved
Required
Working
Hard
Deeply
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin
Alone
Book
World
Extraordinary
Out
Tale
Heads
Like
Contemporary
Wrote
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Territory
Am
Traditional
Bloody
Quickly
Frightened
Frightening
Goes
Just
Afraid
Story
Original
Her
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
Victoria Hanley
Smile
Library
Remember
Back
Books
Section
Librarian
Out
TV
Point
Exchange
Checked
Tale
Household
Fairy
Another
Fairy Tale
Without
Up
Quiet
Stack
Door
Grew
While
Next
Next Door
Lived
Bring
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
Elio Di Rupo
Life
You
Life Is A
My Life
Could
Tale
Make
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Up
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