2013 Challenge

[Christine]

Any suggestions for next year's challenge?

[Jalilah]

Arabian Nights
French Fairy Tales
Celtic Fairy tales

[Christine]

So maybe by country then? Or country and type?

[Melanti]

Inspired by the Peter Pan thread -- a "retelling with a dark or horror twist" might be a fun category.

And maybe "fairy tale mash-up" (i.e. story with elements of several/many tales in it.)

Perhaps "well-known anthology"? (ex. Arabian Nights, or Grimms, Anderson, Calvino, Perrault?)

I'm not opposed to countries either. I've had a good (but surprisingly difficult) time this year looking for novel-length retellings of non-European tales.

[Mawgojzeta]

I would be all for African fairy tales, since I have been exposed to so few.


In all honesty, I like most the ideas presented.

[Emily]

I like the well-known anthology idea. I'm kind of hunting for an excuse to read some of Andrew Lang's books, though.

[Christine]

Lang would count as a well known anthology. The challenge is up.

[Melanti]

Ooh, goodie...

I'm making it one of my New Year's resolutions to read Anderson and Calvino's collections.

[Christine]

I should note that traditional collection on the challenge simply means a collection of traditional tales. Anything by Grimm or Andersen would count but so would collections by Jane Yolen, Briggs, those in the Panetheon series, Lang etc.

[Elley]

UGH, short stories.

[Leah]

Chris, I'm hoping for our 2014 challenge we will have less "collection of" types. So I'll definitely keep an eye out for the 2014 thread, for which I'll start brainstorming now through December. (I must've missed this thread for 2013 back in December/January.)

[Christine]

Okay. I'll see what I can do.