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(Unit 8) Topic 6: Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales in the Early Childhood Classroom 

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Fractured Fairy Tales

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Once students have read and become familiar with the classics, educators can introduce an engaging new spin on them – fractured fairy tales. These stories have been modified from their original version. Authors change the characters, plot, setting or time, point of view, items in the story (think Cinderella’s glass slipper), or ending. This demonstrates to your students how authors can change the story by manipulating the different elements. Plus, more often than not, children find these stories wildly funny.   

Here are just a few examples of fractured fairy tales:

​The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
​by Jon Scieszka

Price Cinders
​by Babette Cole

The Princess and the Pizza
​by Mary Jane Auch ​

Trust Me, Jack's Beanstalk Stinks!: The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk as Told by the Giant
​by Eric Braun 

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
​by Eugene Trivizas ​

​The Bears' Story
​by Baldwin B. Bear

As you read more fractured fairy tales with your students, you can encourage them to create some of their own! ​  

• The Princess and the Pea - Fixed Fairy Tales ( A video re-telling of the classic fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea.)

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