An Animal Dilemma for Children to Solve
Michael Pollan proves to be versatile enough to devise two versions of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the initial one, subtitled A Natural History of Four Meals, written for adults and a second one, subtitled The Secrets Behind What You Eat which is an abridged and rewritten Young Readers Edition, meant for a juvenile audience. Of course, in the latter version the disturbing details of … Read on …
“Zootopia” – A family movie that has so much more to offer
One reason why this animated movie was so well received by the critics and the general public is that it has a little for everyone: children just love the dreamy and idealistic little rabbit Judy Hopps, in combination with the slick and cunning fox, Nick Wilde. As for the grown-ups… Read on …
“I Speak for the Trees” – The Lorax (2012)
I think “The Lorax” is a good story for nowadays society. First written in 1971, the story written by Dr. Seuss is rather suggestive: everything depends on us; everything depends on our choice to change small things and then, to change the world. The movie produced by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda outstretches the plot on more topics. Read on …
In the rabbit’s clothes – “Peter Rabbit, the movie” (2018)
In ”Peter Rabbit, the Movie” the gentle tone of the classic tale has been replaced by a more dynamic and funny tone, as befits contemporary times. Read on …
Ink and Dust: Cornelia Funke‘s World
If you were a character, how would you feel meeting your creator, the author that invented you? Read on …
The Price of the Curse
A fairy tale for adults, ”Into the Woods” intertwines several stories, such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Rapunzel” and “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Read on …
Alice in Wonderland — books and films
A comparative analysis of the way Lewis Carroll’s Alice books were adapted cinematically by Walt Disney and Tim Burton. Despite the time distance, the two adaptation share a concern with the question of identity and nonsense. Read on …
”There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Selected and Translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers “My stories are a mirror. People see themselves in them. If they see evil, it means they’re evil. If they see…
Shoes for Princesses
Manuela Stănescu’s study The Twelve Dancing Princesses or The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (Montessori, 2017) is, a comparative analysis of four variants of the well-known fairy tales. Read on …