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Magic Town App Debuts On iPad: Summer Reading in Virtual World For Kids

By admin | Published: June 25, 2012

London, United Kingdom and New York, NY – Magic Town, the first virtual world based on picture books, is now available on the App Store. like the MagicTown website, the Magic Town app for iPad(R) is an immersive game where children read and play with popular picture books licensed from top publishers. the app has [...]

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Exhibition well versed in fairy tales

By admin | Published: June 14, 2012

Halloween will arrive a little early in Oamaru this year as schoolchildren in the town get a lesson in how to create their own fairy tales – with the aid of a local artist, the Forrester Art Gallery and a “Word Witch”. the “Making of the Word Witch” exhibition, featuring children’s stories by new Zealand [...]

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Creative Imagination and Fairy Tales

By admin | Published: June 9, 2012

The link between creative imagination and fairy tales is far stronger than many people realize. Fairy tales are much more than entertaining stories for children. There is often a hidden meaning. In many ways a fairy tale is similar to a secret code that can only be broken by a careful examination and detailed analysis [...]

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Perfect Picture Book Friday – Seriously, Cinderella Is SO Annoying!

By admin | Published: June 8, 2012

Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. it is a list of “perfect” picture books recommended by all sorts of people. I chose this book because I think this is a great “book for boys” and I really like how the Cinderella story is re-told. Seriously, Cinderella is [...]

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New twist on 'Little Red Riding Hood,' princess boot camp and other Guide picks for children

By admin | Published: April 30, 2012

‘INTO THE WOODS’ IN PLANO AND DALLAS Fans of Stephen Sondheim’s musical musing on colliding fairy tales, where Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) and a couple of charming princes meet, are in luck. They have the chance to see a professional production of into the Woods by Pfamily Arts [...]

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Fairy Tales for Kids » Blog Archive » Can you name other fairy tales where someone has to destroy something in order to save it?

By admin | Published: April 29, 2012

25Apr Question by here-and-faraway: Can you name other fairy tales where someone has to destroy something in order to save it?In the story of Peter and the White Cat, a prince is asked by a cat to cut off its head. he doesn’t want to, but does so because she tells him to do it. [...]

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Friday Fairy Tales with a Twist – Story Time to GO! « Kids

By admin | Published: April 22, 2012

Read and play along with us in this to-go version of our Preschool story time! Fairy tales are wonderful stories to read and often are available in beautiful picture book form…Start with this classic–with a twist! in Goldilocks by Ruth Sanderson, she and the bears end up making muffins together and the recipe is included! [...]

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Angelina Jolie, Kristen Stewart and Julia Roberts: How Many Fairy-Tale Updates Do We Need Anyway?

By admin | Published: April 4, 2012

Universal Pictures Hi, answer B!tch! What’s up with Hollywood’s recent fascination with fairy tales? Grimm, Once upon a Time and two Snow White movies? is this trend on it’s way out or is it just getting started?
—Kelly T., via Facebook The fairy-tale genre is never leaving us, at least not as far as I can [...]

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First impressions / Achievable targets, not fairy tales

By admin | Published: March 27, 2012

From all four corners of Europe, Eli Guttman gathered a roster of expat soccer players. the new national team coach bent, folded and otherwise mutilated his players until they lined up in what he hoped would be a modern 4-5-1 formation. but his players were in generous mood: Two embarrassing defensive errors gave the visitors [...]

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The Turnip Princess and Hundreds More Fairy Tales Unearthed in Germany

By admin | Published: March 15, 2012

Move over, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty; the newest fairy tale heroine is none other than the Turnip Princess. Five hundred previously unknown Bavarian fairy tales — including “the Turnip Princess,” available to read on The Guardian’s website — have been unearthed by cultural curator Erika Eichenseer after being locked away in an archive for over [...]

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