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"Reimagin[ing] Familiar Stories with Different Faces"

In 2018, I wrote an essay for the Horn Book about my experience having created a photo series with my then-five-year-old daughter, Apple, after she asked me, “Mama, why are most of the people in my fairy tales white?” I spent the following year photographing her in the lead roles...
      

Table of Contents: March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine

Cover photo by Kristen Joy Emack.   Features “Reimagin[ing] Familiar Stories with ­Different Faces” by Kristen Joy Emack  A photo essay centering a diverse group of teens in fairy tales. “Better Ask Somebody Else.” by Marilyn Nelson “What is this poetry, and why is it so important?” Tall Tales by Noah Van...
      

From the Editor - February 2024

Our second “Cover to Cover” event with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has just been announced! “Reimagining Familiar Stories with Different Faces” features March/April Horn Book cover artist Kristen Joy Emack discussing her photo-essay centering a diverse group of teens in fairy tales. The talk — virtual...
      

Preview March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine

Cover photo by Kristen Joy Emack.   Second issue of our centennial year! HB100: Poetry & Folklore: Continuing our centennial coverage with discussion of this issue’s mini-theme. A photo essay by Kristen Joy Emack centering a diverse group of teens in fairy tales. In Memoriam: Patricia Lee Gauch remembers Ed...
      

Race in fairy tales

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I grew up in the 1970s, when the lens on fairy tales turned academic and feminist. It was a time when fairy tales were being examined and critiqued for remaining wedded to their their antiquated gender roles--the recurring ideals of strength and adventure belonged to the realm of men and...
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