Kathleen's Storybook Favorites

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The Stolen Princess was a wonderful story.  The beginning actually reminded me about the start of some versions of Sleeping Beauty, with a fairy or faeries being angry at a king and using his infant daughter for revenge.  Also, some similarities were the faeries raising the princess until she was 15/16, and the curse or tragedy happening when she was 16.  Also, it is similar to the Disney version because it involves a man finding her in the woods when she was about to turn 16.  Although Sleeping Beauty wasn’t the original basis for this story, I get the impression that it represents it very well.  I really liked the way that the author told the story, not revealing the entire plot at once, holding some of the story points until later. 

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Choosing Paradise was a wonderful take on the Adam and Eve story.  It was extremely original.  The pictures went very well with the chapters and added to the story experience.  I greatly enjoy science fiction, and this story reminded me of many Star Trek episodes that involved making robots more human, or at least pondering if self-awareness made them human, and where to draw the line with experiments and modifications.  I liked how at the end of the story the ‘creator’ let them go. 

Image from Choosing Paradise.  Source:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yangyang-the-human-face-of-robots-mjb8gfg0f8c

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A Princes Perspective was an interesting take on traditional “Disney” fairy tales that greatly focus on the princess’s perspective, and tend to overshadow the prince’s story line.  In each of the stories, the Princes consider whether they made the right decision to marry their princess.  I like the concept of taking several different stories and having them each follow a similar plot, although I thought it would have been more interesting if not all of them had positive outcomes.

 With each of these stories, I like how the different chapters were reachable from a link at the top of the page.  For the Choosing Paradise story, I also liked how the title of each chapter had a design in the background.  

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