![]() ![]() What do the female characters do in each story? What do the male characters do?.Students might read the story in conjunction with more familiar fairy tales, perhaps using questions like the ones below to begin thinking about gender roles: A Love-Struck Witch and a Boy Geniusįrom Japanese writer Sachiko Kashiwaba and the translator Avery Fischer Udagawa, " Firstclaw" is a charming story of love lost and found, described by the editors of this year's children's literature issue of Words Without Borders as issue editors as a twist on a traditional fairy tale featuring a reclusive witch and an inventive young woman. Travel with us to the Middle East, East Asia-and an unnamed village somewhere in the Spanish-speaking world, sometime in the future. Each story features a young person facing real-world problems, and finding support in the form of a slightly magical intervention. Who couldn't use a little magic this fall? Towards that end, we've pulled together six global stories that combine realism and fantasy. ![]()
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