2. FAIRY TALE DEFINITION  Good vs. Evil  Happy Ending  Evil & Magical Characters ex: witches, evil stepmother  Moral or lesson  Amuses the audience

3. TYPES OF CHARACTERS  Princes & Princesses  King & Queen  Heroes ex: Robin Hood  Magical ex: Flora, Fona, Maryweather, Fairy Godmother  Witches  Hansel & Gretel  Animals  Giants  Magical Plants, Items

4. SETTINGS PLACES TIME Forests Midnight Castles Long, Long, Ago Towers Once upon a time Candy Houses Market Place Water (swamp) Hole in the ground

5. THE GRIMM BROTHERS  Jacob Ludwig (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859)  German brothers born Hanau, Germany  Family of eight boys & one girl  Published 156 stories/fairy tales  Occupations of librarians & professors in the 1920s & 1930s  Popular Fairy Tales includes: Shoemaker & the Elves, Rapunzel, Frog Prince, The Four Musicians, Hansel & Gretel, The Brave Little Tailor, The Wolf and Seven Little Kids, Snow White and Rose Red

6. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN  Danish author & poet  Born in Denmark in 1805  Tried being an actor, singer & dancer  1835 wrote & published the first of 156 fairy tales  Some popular fairy tales: The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, Little Tuk, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Angel, The Little Match Girl, The Fir Tree

7. CHARLES PERRAULT  Born in Paris, France in 1628  He became a high ranking civil servant and a member of the French Academy  In 1697 he published a book called “Histories or Tales of Past Times with Morals”  This book told stories of 80 Fairy Tales  Popular Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty Red Riding Hood Cinderella Puss in Boots Diamonds and Toads Bluebeard Hop O’ My Thumb

8. RABBI NAHMAN  Born in 1772 in Medzhibozh in Ukraine  In 1806 his infant son Shlomo Ephraim died from an unknown illness; this is when he turned to writing his stories  Wrote stories from summer of 1806-1810 when he died from tuberculosis  Created 13 new fairy tales and a number of parables and folktales  Fairy talesFolktales The Pirate PrincessThe Fixer The Gem PrinceThe Treasure The Merchant and the PoormanThe Turkey Prince The Lost Princess

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