FAIRY TALES

ECED 10
Children’s Literature
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 Origin
“Fairy” comes from the Latin word
‘fatum’ meaning fate. From the old
and Middle French ‘feerie’ meaning
land of the free or fates into the
Middle English ‘faerie.’
 CHARACTERISTICS OF FAIRY TALES

1. The story commonly begins with

“Once upon a time” and ends with
“And they live happily ever after.”
2. No definite place/setting.
3. Setting is an illogical world, inhabited
with people whose lives are crossed by
creatures of magic such as fairies,
witches, genies, elves, dwarfs, who
meddle in the affairs of humans by
means of enchantment.
4. It is in an unreal world in which the
most difficult problem can be solved
by enchantment or magic as the
waving of the wand, granting three
wishes, wearing a magic ring,
repeating a charm or spell.
5. Story move in direct action—
the good are rewarded while
the evil are punished.
 LITERARY FAIRY TALES
(Hans Christian Andersen)

Literary fairy tales marks the transition from pure

folk tales to the modern imaginatively conceived
fairy story of fanciful tale.

Andersen made use of fantasy—a tale of magic

often beginning realistically but merging quickly
into strange and dreamable adventure.
 DIST INCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF
ANDERSEN’S TALES
1. Uses vivid, dramatic, and direct oral speech.
2. Uses simple words possible.
3. Stories were of infinite variety.
4. Did not follow the classic forms of old folktales
5. Stories are a mixture of traditional, realistic,
historical, highly imaginative or fanciful
6. Stories are sometimes in form of
allegory, parable, or fable
7. A mixture of stories from other
countries.
8. Shifting from the world of pure
imagination and fantasy to stark
realism
and from reality to fantasy
 VALUES OF FAIRY TALES

1. Changes the common place into what is rich,

strange, and wonderful.
2. Teach children to look for wonder in the
commonplace.
3. Stir the imagination.
4. Establish our sense of wonder.
5. Satisfy the hunger for adventure.
6. Develop courage in children.
7. Help in the emotional development of children.
8. Provide pleasure and enjoyment.
 USES OF FAIRY TALES

1. For reading aloud to children.

2. For storytelling.
3. For dramatization.
4. For illustration
 MODERN FAIRY TALES AND WRITERS

1. Charles Kingsley—The Water Babies

2. Charles Lutwidge Dodson—Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland
3. George McDonald—At the Back of North Wind
4. Robert Lawson’s—Rabbit Hills
5. Selma Lagerlof—The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
6. Beatrix Potter—Tales of Peter Rabbit
7. Jose Rizal—The Monkey and the Turtle