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There was a fractured fairy tale party at Lee road earlier this week, which got me thinking a lot about storytelling and how stories go.  Fractured fairy tales are stories that are told with familiar characters or plots from fairy tales, but they have a new ending, characters, setting, or sometimes a whole different story.  In Explorastory, we read Jim Aylesworth’s wonderfully illustrated (by Barbara McClintock) version of The Gingerbread Man.  The cover doesn’t really give you a good sense of what the black-and-white cow looks like wearing a dress. Check it out, it’s wierdly minotaur-ish.

The book Can’t Catch Me  is another story involving big dreams, lots of running, trickiness and gulping at the end.  I like what the ice cube taunts:

 

 

“Can’t catch me!  I’m off to the sea, where I will grow as BIG as an iceberg and bump boats when they aren’t lookin’!” 

So the question was: “What would you chase all over the place?”  Jordan would chase a cup of milk, Caroline would chase popsicles, and Jacob would chase a duck.  Jacob also said he’d chase the sun, and in order to chase he would build a plane to get him up to it.  But then what, Jacob?

 

 

 

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Maddy made up a big story about what she’d chase and wrote it on the back of the illustration.  See, Maddy, the cow and dad are chasing the ice cube down to the ocean.  At the same time, mom has been grabbed by the octopus!  But don’t worry, all the fish are saving her…whew!