Literacy is Magical

Upon reading the options to choose from, our group decided to go against the choices and create our own, which, or course, had to involve how the girliest of things could effect one’s literacy. So naturally our group, that happened to be all girls, chose fairy tales. Not just modern recreations of these fairy tales, such as the Disney interpretations, but the original fairy tales including darker plots and more obscure themes. We chose to look at how the changes and population of these fairy tales being introduced to young girls and boys affects their literacy and way of thinking growing up.

We are mainly basing our findings around the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter. It is written in a mother’s perspective who is trying to avoid introducing her own daughter to the concepts provided in the newly adapted fairy tales, such as one’s goal being to find prince charming or to be solely obsessed with one’s beauty.

I also found this link below that happened to relate pretty well to the book because it shows how reading these stories makes children grow up aware of how they might relate or differ from what Disney has depicted to be beautiful. Okay, just kidding about the link, the thing is super long, but if you search for this title (if you really care) then a free version should pop up.