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Topic: My Storybook will involve different urban legends and stories told around halloween. My favorite holiday is Halloween, so I want to play around with how it all started and intertwine different legends and myths about the holiday. Growing up I loved reading Disney's Haunted Mansion Pop-Up Book so I think it would be very fun to add that aspect to my storytelling. I would also like to incorporate some aspect of the Disney Channel Original Movie Halloween Town. There is also a collection of halloween stories on CD that I had as a kid that would be excellent for this project. I've tried researching but I can't seem to find it. I'll have to call home and ask what it was. Another great resource I would love to use is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. I loved listening to the audiobooks as a kid. They have some very scary stories that would work well with my theme.
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| Illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark |
Bibliography:
1. Book Title: Haunted Mansion Pop-Up Book
Book Author: Chuck Murphy
Year: 1994
2. Book Title: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (series)
Book Author: Alvin Schwartz
Illustrator: Stephen Gammell
Year: 1981-1991
Possible Styles:
Third-Person Style: I will use the third-person style of writing just because I anticipate having a good amount of characters in my stories and I think it would be less confusing to the reader if I write in third-person. My story will reflect on the urban legends of Halloween so I will involve multiple characters.
Frametale: I definitely want all my characters to be connected in a way that shows how halloween got it's start and how their stories live on to this day. I want to show how all these "monsters" came together to create a holiday that celebrates them.
Young Adult Fiction: Even though some of these stories are meant for children, I want to vamp of the fear factor in my stories to make them as scary as possible. I am a haunted house, scary movie junkie so the scarier the better!
Newspaper Writing: I think it would be neat to incorporate some type of news writing into my project. I could show how these tales were based off real people and the urban legends just started popping up adding different details to the stories.
I am very excited to let my creativity flow during this project. I have forgotten how fun it is to let my creativity over take me.
Hello again! I /love/ this idea. How did I miss this last time we were commenting buddies? I love Urban legends (even though I'm a total chicken / twenty-one year old with a night light / I jump during children's movies). Even though I've always been a scaredy cat Disney's Haunted Mansion was my favorite as a child, even still my favorite ride at Disney World. I love reading about the origins of Halloween and other 'dark holidays' and how Urban legends come about. There's always some truth to them! And even though it's likely to terrify me, I really like finding out just how much. I'm definitely going to read your storybook!
ReplyDeleteHey Dylan,
ReplyDeleteI am REALLY excited to see how your storybook turns out. I love urban legends and Halloween. Your idea of telling it as a Frametale sounds awesome. It would give you a lot of freedom for character development as well as making your own urban legend type stories. I look forward to reading your storybook.