For the extra reading, I read the first half of the Turkish Fairy Tales unit. I really liked the stories, and thought that they were pretty easy to read and follow. The story structure was largely different from many of the others that I’ve read so far, and I really liked how these were told. It was repetitive enough to be told well orally, but also not difficult or cumbersome to read.
I really liked the story of The Crow-Peri, which tells the story of a bird-catcher who gets trapped doing ridiculous errands for the padishah because his advisor is trying to steal the fortune he made by selling the padishah a bird. The crow was a great character, and I loved when they revealed that she was a servant of the queen in her fairy homeland. I had no idea what to expect when reading this story, though I noted that it was similar in structure to the one before it, The Fish-Peri.
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| (A crow, as I imagined the one in The Crow-Peri to look. Image source: Wikimedia Commons) |
I also really liked the story of Fear, which describes a boy who knows no fear, and thus goes on a quest to find fear. I thought it was funny and clever how he did not find fear in many of the places that most people would be afraid, but instead was frightened by a bird flying out of his soup. Arguably, this could have been surprise, not necessarily fear, but it was a very cute ending to the fairy tale.
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