SurLaLune turns 10 this year! I can't believe it has been going so long. I've been busy with real world projects for the first part of the year,
but I want to do some fun things to celebrate the 10 year anniversary. However, it's not fun for me if it's not fun or at least interesting for
others, so I wanted to canvas for some ideas.
For example,
I might do a few contests with prizes--perhaps a new t-shirt design idea.
I'm always willing to accept offers of guest annotators or other articles, too.
I have plans for the addition of more ebooks and to hopefully raise the tally of annotated tales to 50 by year's end. There's 47 on the site
currently, so votes for the other three are also welcome.
In other words, I'm open for suggestions of what you'd like to see.
Let me know here or through an email if you only lurk and don't want to share publicly.
Thanks! I wouldn't be here without you!
SurLaLune's Decade Celebration
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 Heidi Anne Heiner |
SurLaLune's Decade Celebration |
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Posts: 1008 (04/21/08 18:56:25) |
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MaryCatelli |
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Posts: 190 (04/22/08 15:13:42) |
Offers of guest annotators -- do you have fairy tales you want annotated or people who offer to annotate fairy tales they find interesting?
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Heidi Anne Heiner |
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Posts: 1009 (04/22/08 17:38:07) |
I'm open to either possibility, actually. I have some ideas of tales to add that may be popular such as Clever Manka, Hut in the Forest, Steadfast Tin
Soldier, Frog Princess and a few others.
I also haven't finished annotating a few of the tales on the site, such as Firebird, Nightingale, Red Shoes, Swan Maiden and Baba Yaga, which contributing annotators could add to. |
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petajinnathandersen |
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Posts: 14 (04/22/08 19:24:56) |
I'd be happy to annotate a few fairy tales--Firebird and Swan Maiden appeal. Just let me know if you're interested.
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MaryCatelli |
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Posts: 192 (04/23/08 16:29:01) |
Cool! I would be interested in doing The Dancing Water,
the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird (or The Three Little Birds, but the other one is more typical of the type) or
Farmer Weathersky, or The White Bride and the Black One or Snow-White-Fire-Red, which I think the most typical "the girl helps the hero
flee" story on Sur La Lune
(Carefully selected for stories of a different Aarne-Thompson type that those you already have annotated.  )
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MaryCatelli |
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Posts: 193 (04/23/08 17:34:37) |
err -- who's running?
If you have anything with Greek fairy tales, I would vote for that. Also, anything with Slavonic fairy tales other than Russian. |
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Heidi Anne Heiner |
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Posts: 1010 (04/25/08 13:01:17) |
Thank you to everyone for your offers to be guest annotators. I've already emailed everyone who has volunteered except for you Mary. Could you email so
we can start a correspondence on the tales that interest you?
My biggest challenge is having enough material to warrant giving a tale its own section but I'm pretty willing to work with a tale if I can get at least one illustration for it and it holds enough interest for SurLaLune's visitors. I get emails from people falling in love with lesser known tales through the site, so the more we offer, the better it is, IMHO. Also, I'm considering Frog Princess a must since Disney is releasing it next year, so if anyone is interested in that one, please let me know! |
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MaryCatelli |
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Posts: 195 (04/25/08 17:39:35) |
email's off.
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Wonderlicious |
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Posts: 20 (04/26/08 11:00:02) |
As far as "The Frog Princess" is concerned, whilst I have no objection to its inclusion, I should warn that "The Princess and the Frog" (as
Disney's "The Frog Princess" is now going to be called) looks to be a light-hearted retelling of "The Frog Prince", albeit with a Cajun
setting and with the princess turning into a frog at one point or another.
As for tales that I'd like to see, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is an obvious one, in addition to "The Tinderbox", "Dick Whittington" and "The Pied Piper". Also, are you going to put up any Arabian Nights on the site at all? I'm really quite surprised that there are no inclusions of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". |
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MaryCatelli |
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Posts: 196 (04/26/08 14:10:20) |
Can still get people coming to Sur La Lune looking for the original Frog Princess, and even have them wandering about to the others.
BTW, both "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" and "The Tinderbox" are literary fairy tales, not folk tales. "The Tinderbox" has a number of analogs -- such as "Aladdin" -- but "The Steadfast Tin Soldier doesn't. |
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Posts: 8 (05/07/08 21:38:32) |
I'd definitely vote for including Frog Princess. I've been telling this story to groups from elementary school to adults for years, and I always find
something interesting to think about in the telling. Plus, there are all those great Russian illustrations--even the lacquer boxes. I'd love to help with
annotations, too.
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Heidi Anne Heiner |
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Posts: 1025 (07/19/08 12:28:15) |
After a long break, I'm back to updating and adding to SurLaLune. Right now, I'm adding Steadfast Tin Soldier and Tinderbox as
annotated tales to the site. If anyone has any modern interpretations of these two tales to add, such as movies, poetry, short stories, novels or plays, feel
free to send them along or post here. I'm expanding the content. I have illustrations but the galleries aren't programmed yet. They will be coming
next week. I'll be programming the links for the annotations this week, too, although the notes are available on the Annotations pages.
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Wonderlicious |
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Posts: 21 (07/19/08 15:31:47) |
From what's being done so far, great work! By the way, a little note about The Steadfast Tin Soldier; you list no
film versions, but an animated version set to classical music appears in Disney's Fantasia 2000:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120910/ |
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