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We were reading The Talking Eggs the other day.
Great story. The first girl (the nice one) goes and follows the instructions that the old woman (kinda like Baba Yaga, but without the chickenfooted house) gives her, and is rewarded both then and later. And the second girl, predictably, doesn't and isn't.
As we were reading, and we got to the second girl entering the hen house after stealing the old woman's head (she really isn't very nice, this girl), I asked if the old woman had told her the truth. I wasn't paying much attention, and assumed she had - if the girl had just taken the plain eggs like her sister, she would have been rewarded just the same, even though she WAS a nasty piece of work.
And Ana said "No, because last time she said to throw them over your right shoulder, and this time she said to throw them over your left!" I knew as soon as she said it that she was correct. In all these old stories, nobody says to do anything on the left side unless the RIGHT side is the correct one. I know this because I've read many fairy tales and also because I'm a lefty and as a kid that sort of detail irked me a lot more than it does today. (Of course, it's very hard to throw anything over your right shoulder unless you use your left hand. Try it!) But Ana hasn't read nearly as many fairy tales as I have, or even as I had at her age, and she's never had any reason to notice handedness at all except that I occasionally sit on the wrong side of her when writing or eating and have to move so we don't bump elbows. She only noticed because she paid attention to this one detail in a book she was reading with me for the second time ever.
As for Evangeline, she said something yesterday that made me think "LOL, like on BSG", but for the life of me I can't remember what on earth she said! VERY annoying. But it was cute.
Great story. The first girl (the nice one) goes and follows the instructions that the old woman (kinda like Baba Yaga, but without the chickenfooted house) gives her, and is rewarded both then and later. And the second girl, predictably, doesn't and isn't.
As we were reading, and we got to the second girl entering the hen house after stealing the old woman's head (she really isn't very nice, this girl), I asked if the old woman had told her the truth. I wasn't paying much attention, and assumed she had - if the girl had just taken the plain eggs like her sister, she would have been rewarded just the same, even though she WAS a nasty piece of work.
And Ana said "No, because last time she said to throw them over your right shoulder, and this time she said to throw them over your left!" I knew as soon as she said it that she was correct. In all these old stories, nobody says to do anything on the left side unless the RIGHT side is the correct one. I know this because I've read many fairy tales and also because I'm a lefty and as a kid that sort of detail irked me a lot more than it does today. (Of course, it's very hard to throw anything over your right shoulder unless you use your left hand. Try it!) But Ana hasn't read nearly as many fairy tales as I have, or even as I had at her age, and she's never had any reason to notice handedness at all except that I occasionally sit on the wrong side of her when writing or eating and have to move so we don't bump elbows. She only noticed because she paid attention to this one detail in a book she was reading with me for the second time ever.
As for Evangeline, she said something yesterday that made me think "LOL, like on BSG", but for the life of me I can't remember what on earth she said! VERY annoying. But it was cute.
