Maria Ott Tatham ~ Blog

Tag: Cinderella

  • Do you have a favorite fairy tale?

    Stefan Wernli – Fog in a forest on Mount Frickberg near Frick, Switzerland

    Please give one or two with the reasons for your choices. Here are some to get you thinking:

    Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Snow Queen. Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel. The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast. The Ugly Duckling, Snow White, Rumplestiltskin. The Frog Prince, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Red Shoes. The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid. . .

    My favorite two:

    Beauty and the Beast, because of her unselfishness and his transformation.

    By Warwick Goble – Beauty and the Beast, 1913

    Cinderella, because of its portraits of both love and justice.

    Cinderella by Valentine Cameron-Prinsep

  • Have fun writing fiction!

    Photo by David Guerrero on Pexels.com

    This is my recommendation, for sure. But sometimes the fun must be curtailed.

    In my Cinder-girl retelling, I chuckled at the possibility of naming the Chamberlain ‘Monsieur Fanfare’. But this bit of fun would mean I couldn’t use ‘fanfare’ in any other context, and what would this fairy tale be without a royal fanfare or two?