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Misogyny in Fairy Tales?

Does the illustration at the head of this post make you feel uncomfortable? It does me; the prince looks a real voyeur, and knowing the ...

Boy do I LOVE stuff like this. Read it, srsly, it’s brilliant.

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Fox

A mother fox dug under the old barn now used as a storage shed. Some of us think she has eight kits; one person counted nine. She’s raising her little ones beside a well-used path to the arena where riders on horseback pass several times a day. The boldest of the kits sun themselves as we stare, mystified that their mother isn’t threatened by us or our massive, stomping companions. She quietly…

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An Interview with Katherine Langrish: British Author, Storyteller, and Folklorist

An Interview with Katherine Langrish: British Author, Storyteller, and Folklorist

Katherine Langrish is an award-winning author of children’s and young adult historical fantasy. Her meticulous research, gorgeous prose, and instinct for a good story have won her many fans around the world. Since 2009, Katherine has been the creator of the outstanding blog Seven Miles of Steel Thistles where she shares her thoughts and fascinating anecdotes related to her literary and folkloric…

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Just Started: Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish. This book is about Peer and his dog Loki. There are secret plots and trolls and adventures - looks like fun! :D xx

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The next time you read an excellent horse story or school story or fantasy, try not to say in its praise, ‘It isn’t just a pony book/school story, of course…’ as if somehow it needs to be extracted from its lowly niche before it can be appreciated. Worse still, don’t say, ‘It’s not really a pony book/school story/children’s book at all!’ Because if you do, if everyone who ever reads and loves a ‘genre’ book feels they have to rescue it from its category before praising it, then what is left? Every category of books – novels, children’s fiction, popular science, you name it – contains a multiplicity of less or more able writers, and we should remember it's better do something simple and do it well, than to aim high and fail. If somebody says, as someone recently said to me, ‘But Ursula le Guin’s books aren’t really fantasies’, how is that a compliment to le Guin, who chose to employ her wonderful talents in the field of sci-fi and fantasy? All it really proclaims is the reader’s embarrassment at having enjoyed a book belonging to a genre which they believe - in spite of the evidence before their eyes - to be second-rate.

Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: "It's not just an [insert genre] book..."

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Begin at the beginning was the Mad Hatter’s advice. And willingly or not, fairy tales begin with fairies. Sort of. Not really. But fairy tales, at the very least, began in folktales, and otherness and strangeness form the boundaries of story that hapless protagonists cross–or not. It all depends on the story. We begin with fairies, then, with guidance from our folklore editor: Katherine Langrish, the critically acclaimed author of Dark Angels, points us down the troublesome road that leads to the centre–or is it the border?–of the wonder tale.

On Fairy Tales, Old and New | Unsettling Wonder On Fairy Tales, Old and New |

[the-final-sentence]

"There's never any ending," Peer said softly. "Life goes on."

Katherine Langrish, from Troll Blood