My storybook will be about nursery rhyme love stories. My goal is to find four different traditional nursery rhymes, and make the current characters connect in a romantic or “happily ever after” kind of way, rather than the traditional way we read and understand them now. One nursery rhyme I would want to include is Jack and Jill. It gave my inspiration for this entire topic during the first week of class, so I would really like to expand what I started there. Another story I would like to include would be The Old Woman Under a Hill. I don’t think I will have any trouble finding nursery rhymes due to the amount that are in Gutenberg’s book online. My criteria for choosing a story will be based on how people traditionally view the story. For instance, if the story is thought of as siblings or friends or relatives, I want to give a new background and new story how the two characters are actually in love and so on.
Bibliography:
Jack and Jill
The Nursery Rhyme Book
Edited by Andrew Lang
Publication Date Unknown
The Old Woman Under a Hill
The Real Mother Goose
Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright
Release Date: January 5, 2004 [Last updated January 14, 2011]
Possible Styles:
Fairy Godmother as storyteller:
This might be the easiest one. Overall, each story would come the famous fairy godmother that tells every little girl about love.
Journey:
I could make all the stories end up being the same characters in their different stages of love. So each story could be from first person about how he or she met their significant other so on through their love filled life
Celebration:
Each character could be a guest of a wedding and they could be telling or retelling their personal love story
Children’s View:
These are nursery rhymes, so I could make this sound as if it is coming from a child with a grand imagination
These are nursery rhymes, so I could make this sound as if it is coming from a child with a grand imagination
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