Storybook Favorites Review Post

Novel Nursery Rhymes
I loved the topic of this post! Particularly, I enjoyed the way that the author took something familiar and rather childlike and ran with it, making it into new and exciting stories that were a refresher of things I'm sure we have all heard a million times. The introduction set up what was to come from the very beginning, really making me excited to read the fairy tales in their new forms. I loved the way that it was also told as if a grandmother was telling the stories because of the degree of innocence and youth that it added. This storybook was very easy to navigate and felt just like reading a traditional fairy tale collection, which I loved. I love the idea of even being able to use something like this later on when I become a teacher and I think this could be a great platform to start with as an example for writing projects for students.

One of the fairy tales on the post was Humpty Dumpty but

with a backstory in regards to how he got up on the wall. 

Source: Sketch Port

Dear Diary: Camp Olympus
I thought the topic of this posting was an interesting way to go about exploring the idea of the gods and goddesses of Greek Mythology. Although some of the writing was a little choppy or could have been slightly more eloquent, the idea still worked nicely and provided another creative outlet to tell about the topic of mythology in a more fun way. The set up was slightly confusing because of the way that the writer said everything was from Penny's perspective but gave the sections titles that were different names. After a little bit of reading, it became more clear but it took a little bit of research to figure it out. I also love the way this is a potential creative writing platform I could model something after in the future and give my students a more intriguing way of diving into mythology and folklore and really taking ownership over it.

Morgan's Mythology: Highschool Gods
This was a particularly unique way of diving into the idea of the Greek gods and goddesses and who they really were at their core. I loved the way that the author applied what she knew about mythology but also managed to put a fictional twist on it, setting it back to high school days. I thought the introduction set it up really well because of the way that it addressed the personality of each character. The only thing that I would probably change is the way that she was so brief on the Three Brothers and the Three Maiden's page, but other than that, this story book was really well done.