Whatever you do don’t call Moana a “princess!” Voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and newcomer Auli’i Cravalho and with music composed by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana is Disney’s latest creation. Read more on Moana on the Fairy Tale News Blog! And mark your calendars for Thanksgiving when Moana hits theaters!
When many think of U Conn they think of one of the most successful college sports teams in America. Although this is true, there are many other compelling reasons that U Conn is an important institution of higher learning. The Department of Dramatic Arts offers BFA, MFA and certificate programs in puppetry and continually put on performances …
After delighting children and adult readers for five decades now you can take a child that you know and love to see The Very Hungry Caterpillar play out right in front of your very eyes – in puppet form no less! This fabulous show features 75 puppets and other works by Carle such as The Artist Who Painted …
This story by Nini Berndt, the latest chapter in the “Works in Progress” series of this blog, was inspired by the collaborations of Maurice Sendak and Randall Jarrell that produced such remarkable, haunting books as The Bat-Poet (1964), The Animal Family (1965), Fly By Night (1976), and especially Jarrell’s translations of Grimm fairy tales in …
By: Bishnupriya Chowdhury
These pictures were taken in between the making of a documentary on the lives of the children of ‘Prafulla Chandra residential school for the visually impaired’ in Nadia, a small suburban town of West Bengal in India, a few years back. I had never been so close to a world where eyes were No-thing…
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Swampish would like to congratulate University of Florida alum Kate DiCamillo! Last week, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced that DiCamillo had been chosen to fill the position of National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Welcome to Swampish, the blog of the University of Florida’s Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. The Center is devoted to the exploration of children’s literature and culture through critical and creative investigations, symposia, seminars, and the development of innovative ways to make the interdisciplinary research and concerns of our members available to the general public.
Fairy tales are not just for kids. In fact, they are for people of all ages, because the themes that they grapple with are so multi-layered that they must be understood over the course of a lifetime. In collaboration with the puppet and installation theatre “Beyond the Bark,” Emma Fisher’s latest work, Pupa, has taken inspiration from Carlo … Continue reading
Though we don’t think about it much at all, a puppet has probably played an important role in our lives — especially our young lives. Several generations of American children have grown up on the lessons of Ernie and Bert and Elmo and Oscar, learning everything from numbers and colors and the alphabet to basic … Continue reading
The hit song “Soy Yo” (I’m me) is not only a catchy tune by the Colombian band Bomba Estéreo. This song is not only catchy, but it also has an important message via its lyrics and video – Be yourself! One of the song’s profound lyrics – “Lo único que importa es lo que está … Continue reading
Issue 63 of Play and Folklore can now be viewed on the Museum Victoria website — here. In this edition, co-editor June Factor pays tribute to “influential and erudite play scholar”, Brian Sutton-Smith, who passed away on March 7th. Included is the obituary shared with his many play colleagues by his family. Play and Folklore … Continue reading
Check out Once Upon a Blog’s great write up on the long running comic series Fables. Continue reading
Check out Once Upon a Blog’s recent write up on the latest Mercedes Benz commercial featuring The Tortoise and The Hare. Continue reading
Below is the Italian trailer for Il racconto dei racconti (Tale of Tales), an Italian fantasy horror film directed by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly. It is Garrone’s first English-language film. The movie is a screen adaptation of fairy tales by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile, including Pentamerone … Continue reading
Kirsty Mitchell ‘WONDERLAND’ 7th – 23rd May 2015 Mead Carney Fine Art, 45 Dover Street, W1S 4FF The show is kindly sponsored by Nikon UK. Mead Carney is pleased to present ‘Wonderland’, a new selling exhibition by award winning fine art photographer Kirsty Mitchell. ‘Wonderland’ is a project created over the course of five years … Continue reading
Suzi Wackerbarth is a children’s librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Downtown and Business. She was formerly a children’s librarian and cataloger at Northland Public Library in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. She participated in the Bechtel Fellowship in May 2013. The following is an excerpt from her essay, “In a Nutshell: Bechtel Scholar Studies Chapbooks, Sendak”: “And they lived … Continue reading
Schwebel will discuss her most current project, a digital archive of materials related to Scott O’Dell’s Newbery award-winning children’s book Island of the Blue Dolphins, and how it relates to nature, historical narratives, and colonialism. The archive will be released in 2016 alongside the first-ever critical edition ofIsland of the Blue Dolphins. This event is … Continue reading
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