This post could really be applied to making any fairy tale or any other kind of journal, but my examples are Beauty and the Beast. For fairy...

One more Christmas-themed post, for good measure: This month I checked out Christmas: A Social History by Mark Connelly from my library, wh...

"But, now, the very tree itself changes, and becomes a bean-stalk--the marvellous bean-stalk up which Jack climbed to the Giant's h...

In the Chicago area, (or the whole coutry according to the ads,) the Joffrey Ballet's Nutcracker is clearly the best one to see-but also...

The evolution of the Nutcracker reminds me of the evolution of Beauty and the Beast-they both started as longer, drawn out stories, includin...

The Nutcracker , the famous Christmas ballet, was based off a story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann in the fall of 1816 (to put that in the con...

The holidays are a CRAZY time for music teachers...so here's something that took no time for me to plan: A Disney Christmas Gift, from 1...

In general, our modern Santa Claus came from a historical figure, St. Nicholas. But in Sweden, their Santa Claus figure was actually once a ...

I was babysitting and watched a Little Einsteins in which there is a sort of Three Little Pigs parody; the enthusiastic and educationally in...

I'm ashamed to admit I have yet to read the book "Beastly" by Alex Flinn...I would probably have been excited about the movie ...