Occasionally a student asks how to cite a blog post in an academic paper. It’s fine to cite/quote/refer to this blog and its posts. All the content is copyrighted (by me), but feel free to use it in an academic… Continue reading

Jules Verne, frequently named the Father of Science Fiction, was born on Feb. 8, 1828 in Nantes, France. He died in 1905. Along with Agatha Christie and Shakespeare, he is one of the most translated writers in the world. Jules… Continue reading

Valentine’s Day, many believe, was an invention of Geoffrey Chaucer in his Middle English poem The Parlemont of Foules (Parliament of Fowls, Assembly of the Birds), in which birds of all social ranks gather to pair off, refereed by Nature… Continue reading

If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Laura Wood’s A Single Thread of Moonlight Laura Wood’s Cinderella-themed YA novel (Scholastic, 2021) is a lovely read, my favorite of the Cinderella re-tellings I’ve… Continue reading

J. Phillips’s Sometime After Midnight If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Sometime After Midnight (Viking, 2018) is billed as a “CinderFella” story–a reimagining of the Cinderella story through an LGBTQ+ lens.… Continue reading

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. By the way, I just discovered this great blog post on all things Rapunzel. And here‘s a blog that does a… Continue reading

Measha Stone’s Tower If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. This is the second of the Rapunzel-themed novels I’m discussing during this year’s Valentine Week. The novel, published in 2018, is Book… Continue reading

Megan Morrison’s Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Of the Rapunzel-themed novels I decided to discuss this year, Morrison’s Grounded, Book I of her Tyme… Continue reading

THE RETURN OF FAIRYTALE FANTASY FAIRY TALE: This term is confusing. Frequently, tales we call “fairy tales” don’t involve fairies at all, and the books I pick for this Valentine feature may or may not include fairies–fae–the fair folk–whatever you… Continue reading