Description
Product Description
Fairy tales for Grades 4 through adult. Smart, strong heroines in old-fashioned fairy tales rich in magic and traditional motifs. Cheerful, wholesome; lively re-telling and much new material. Literary allusions, witty social satire. Favorably reviewed at Midwest Book Review.
Bibliography, story notes, and teachers' notes. 127 pages, 12-point type. Ebook on sale. Samples at www.rosemarylake.com.
From the Author
I've always loved fairy tales, so now I've written some myself. Hope to have a new book up soon.
My favorite fairy tale authors are L. Frank Baum, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Goudge, etc. I also love the first Lucas' Star Wars(R) movies (though not the 'prequels'. And of course most of the Disney(R) fairy tales are great!
I've studied some very old fairytales and they have smart, gutsy heroines who don't need a prince to save them. Mostly they save the prince themselves!
My heroines get to use plenty of magic though, and have helpful animals, and all that good stuff.
About the Author
Born during WWII, Rosemary grew up in a wooden farmhouse house on a dry wide prairie, pretty close to Kansas. She spent most of her time reading about places like Oz, Neverland, Swallowdale, Oxford, and Narnia. She read all the Oz books, and when the librarian told there were no more, Rosemary decided that when she grew up she would write some more of them herself. She's still working on it.
She soon went very far from Kansas. She married a sailor, lived on an island in Rhode Island ... and at a deserted observatory on a mountain above Boulder, Colorado ... and in a Jain Ashram (where, as might happen in Oz, the monks carry fluffy brooms to harmlessly sweep insects off their cushions).
Today, Rosemary lives in a 'travel trailer' that voyages up and down the US Pacific Coast Highway: a neat little house that often parks deep in the woods and turns round and round, just like Baba Yaga's hut.