I swear I shuffled my deck. No, that isn’t MomGothSpeak for something else. I’m participating in Deal Me In, a short-story-reading challenge. We assign stories for ourselves to read on the basis of a deck of playing cards, SHUFFLE THE DECK, and draw one card…
This week’s card was the 10 of diamonds. Diamonds mean I read a story out of one of Andrew Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books. I’ve been choosing stories I haven’t read before, out of the later books, which deal with non-European cultures. I read two, actually:…
The prime fairy tale guy, for me, was Andrew Lang, collector of the Fairy Books of Many Colors. The best part about these stories (other than the gorgeous illustrations) is that they come from many cultures, not just the Western world.
