maybe happily ever afters aren’t always about poisoned apples and princes riding white horses coming to take you away. maybe it doesn’t involve green grass and woodland creatures. our version looked like wet pavements and a sea of strangers but we found magic on empty beer bottles and indie music the kind that will still […]
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This story is one of the September Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . The clock strikes twelve. Midnight. Dong The beautiful girl freezes and looks up, a butterfly caught in a spider’s web. Her ocean eyes find the huge grandfather clock at the head of the room, and she gives a […]
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This month’s book theme is A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and in her story, protagonist Sara starts from a high status and is then forced into servitude, and the one thing that remains is her unrelenting kindness for everyone. Along with her optimism in stark circumstance, Sara’s kindness is her greatest strength. So, don’t […]
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The trailer for Moana is finally here! I’ve been looking forward to seeing Disney’s princess from the Pacific Islands on the big screen, and I’m even more excited now that I’ve seen the teaser trailer — especially since Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of the contributing songwriters! Click here to meet the voice of Moana: Auli’i Cravalho. […]
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She was a princess, but when she returned from Florence, she didn’t quite feel like one. The portrait her father had commissioned before she left the Vatican still hung in the great room, filling the halls with her presence when she couldn’t be there, but these days, it seemed more like fantasy than reality. That […]
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Disney’s newest princess, Moana, hails from the Pacific Islands, and, countless auditions later, her voice actress does too! Auli’i Cravalho, a fourteen-year-old Native Hawaiian, beat out hundreds of other young actresses for the coveted role. This short video introduces Cravalho to the world and takes us on the journey of finding her to portray the fierce Polynesian […]
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When I was a kid, Disney Princess movies were my favorite to watch. I loved how every princess had different qualities that little girls could relate to. I saw myself in Belle from Beauty and the Beast, who loves to read. Then there’s Cinderella, who inspired me to believe that dreams do come true. Soon, […]
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The past month of July in #GERMreads, we had the pleasure of reading The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh, a YA retelling of Arabian Nights. After discussing the book with each other, we now have the opportunity to speak with the author and get some answers to the questions we had while reading. […]
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Since this month’s theme is “Fairytales,” I’ve decided to reflect on the advice and life lessons behind some of my favorite childhood fairytales. To start, let’s consider some of Walt Disney’s classics. The Little Mermaid Ariel wishes to be a human when she is only a mermaid, she loves a man against her father’s […]
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