I wrote a poem for the kids at school for World Book Day. Our theme is Fairytales and Traditional Tales (also with a twist).
Here's my spin on Fairytales. Well, not a spin- an alternative presentation!
Can you recognise the origins of the items on my shopping list?
And, what am I going to dress up as???
A Grimm Shopping List
· A delectable Gingerbread House
· A dapper cat dressed in boots.
· A old cow sold for a bag of beans.
· An emperor with invisible suits.
· A man enchanted as a beast.
· A girl with hair long as a tower.
· A man with a name that’s hard to guess.
· A slipper dropped at the midnight hour.
· Dwarves with adjectival names.
· An old spinning wheel so sharp.
· Breadcrumbs dropped to find the way home.
· A magical singing harp.
· 3 swine with different built-houses.
· A scarlet –hooded cloak.
· A lamp that grants your greatest wish.
· A chair that a gold-locked girl broke.
· Twenty mattresses and a pea.
· A runaway made of gingerbread dough.
· Three billy-goats of diverse size.
· A wolf with a powerful blow.
· A hero or heroine good.
· A baddie with a plan that fails.
· Enchantments and aid from someone good.
· Behold a myriad fairy-tales.