Write Your Own Fable by Natalie M. Rosinsky Your imagination will guide you as you explore the worldwide tradition of fables. Long before stories were written down, storytellers told short tales called fables to entertain and instruct listeners. You, too, can write a fable and use your clever mind to sum up the lesson taught by your fascinating tale.
Fairy tales transport readers to magical places where good battles evil and heroic deeds are done. Fantastic creatures inhabit these fairy-tale worlds, where supernatural events happen during everyday life. Someone often lives happily ever after in these enchanting tales, but what makes the character happy can be surprising.
The thrills and tragedies of everyday living come into focus in realistic fiction. These stories take on the issues that matter to everyone- from relationships with family and friends to struggles against discrimination and illness. Whether it is comic or tragic, reliastic fiction sends characters through many challenges, and readers learn something about life as the story pulls them along.
Writing tips and activities to help readers become writers of tall tales. Tall tales are chock-full of heroes whose impossible explots often explain America's landscape. Their incredible adventures will leave you grinning. Some of the larger-than-life characters in these whoppers are based on real people, while others spring forth from the imaginations of writers just like you.
Science fiction spinds real scientific facts and ideas into imaginative tales. These stories can show us life in a future world or in another world altogether. Science fiction can send characters on travels through time and space or pit them against the forces of evil, showing us the dangers and wonders the future may hold.
