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| User: | writinghood (12608478)
not so easy to fool
red riding hood writes
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| Name: | Amy Lee |
| Website: | My LibraryThing |
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Birthdate: | 10-10 |
| Bio: | Voracious reader. Independent scholar. Freelance writer. Book reviewer (The Horn Book Guide; occasionally Kirkus). Journaler. Adjunct college teacher (writing and children's literature). Kidlitophile (lover of children's books).
THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE WOLF
by James Thurber
One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. "Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?" asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.
When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.
Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.
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| Interests: | 146: academia, alchemy, alfred lord tennyson, alice in wonderland, american mythology, american romanticism, angela carter, animation, appalachian folklore, archetypal theory, arthurian legends, audiobooks, babymouse, ballads, being a student forever, bibliomania, bildungsroman, book reviewing, buffy the vampire slayer, c.s. lewis, charles baudelaire, children's books, children's literature, close reading, comics, dangers of reading absorption, deconstruction, diana wynne jones, donna jo napoli, dystopia, e.b. white, edgar allen poe, edward gorey, ellen wittlinger, etymology, fables, fairy tales, fantasy, feminism, folklore, frances hodgson burnett, francesca lia block, genre, george macdonald, gothic fiction, graphic novels, hand-drawn animation, hans christian andersen, harry potter, hayao miyazaki, high/low culture divide, his dark materials, hobbits, horror, i capture the castle, illustration, james joyce, james thurber, jane eyre, jane yolen, jim henson, katherine paterson, kidlitosphere, l. frank baum, laura ingalls wilder, lemony snicket, libraries, librarything, limericks, literary criticism, little red riding hood, lloyd alexander, louisa may alcott, mabinogion, madeleine l'engle, magical realism, manga, margaret mahy, maria tatar, mark twain, mary sue, maurice sendak, megan whalen turner, metafiction, middle earth, middle grade fiction, mythology, mythopoeia, narnia, narrative theory, neil gaiman, new historicism, nineteenth-century romanticism, oscar wilde, patrice kindl, paul o. zelinsky, performance theory, picturebooks, poetry, post-literate oral culture, pride and prejudice, prydain, queer theory, retellings, science fiction, sentimental fiction, sequential art, shakespeare, shannon hale, short stories, southern gothic, steampunk, stop-motion animation, storytelling, surrealism, susan cooper, sylvia plath, t.s. eliot, tam lin, teaching, teen lit, terry pratchett, the book thief, the dark is rising, the last unicorn, the nightmare before christmas, the princess bride, theatre, tigger, time travel, tom stoppard, traditional literature, transcendentalism, trina schart hyman, true love, ursula k. le guin, vampires, victoriana, vladimir nabokov, watership down, welsh folklore, wicked, witches, world tree, writing, young adult fiction |
| Schools: | Cheltenham High School - Wyncote, PA (1993 - 1997)
Cornell University - Ithaca, NY (1997 - 2001)
Simmons College, Center for the Study of Children's Literature - Boston, MA (2003 - 2006)
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