Forgotten Princesses: Storybook Styles Brainstorm

The topic I have chosen for this assignment is forgotten fairytales. After looking through stories, I have come to the realization that I want to narrow it down even more to forgotten princesses. I have found three stories so far that I would really like to use, but I also want to continue exploring to see if there are any I missed and really love. The stories I found so far were all from Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. The three I liked were The Goose-Girl, Toads and Diamonds, and Princess on the Glass Hill.

Goose-Girl
From Wikipedia

Style Options:

My first idea for a style would be to take the prospective of our favorite storybook characters, and have them or one of them narrating. I thought it would be a cool idea to fashion it in the style of Mean Girls’ burn book. This would mean that the narration would tell all about why the characters were “forgotten” because of some flaw or weird quirk they had. Each page would have a new character on it, and then the narrator would launch into a terrible experience they had with that character, and why they made it into the burn book.



The next idea I had would be to have it from the perspective of the forgotten characters. It would be almost the opposite of the burn book idea, and instead the characters would all be upset that certain other characters always get the recognition. I would like to have all of the characters be a cohesive group where they are all hanging out together in a way and each have a story to tell about the famous characters. Each character would be talking about things in their story, and how a famous character messed everything up for them.



My third idea would be to do a new storybook. It would be branded as a storybook for kids with all the characters they had never heard of. It would be from the perspective of someone who was reading the book. I was kind of thinking along the lines of how the movie The Princess Bride goes. I could use the introduction as a way to set this up, and then move into the stories. I could have possible breaks in the stories for one of the people to interject.



My last idea was to do a general overview of the forgotten characters and why they were forgotten. I would choose a few of my favorites, and detail their stories about why no one has ever heard of them. They may have weird things going on with them, or have made someone angry. I would probably make them all terrible people, or something along the lines. The famous characters and the forgotten ones would not get along at all in this story, and the famous ones would be favored by all authors (hence why they were not forgotten).



Bibliography:

The Goose-Girl from The Blue Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang (1889)

Toads and Diamonds The Blue Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang (1889)

Princess on the Glass Hill The Blue Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang (1889)