Fairy Tales, the exhibition : Ressource du site Contes de fées

The virtual exhibition retraces the history of the tales using a hundred or so images and is a way for the internet visitor of travelling through fairyland. The feature takes an in-depth look at the three following themes: from the oral to the written; the ingredients of the tale; the tale and its variants. There are two close-ups on The Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella . Reading tips are given through an anthology of various texts ranging from Freud to Bettelheim, from the Brothers Grimm to Claude Levi-Strauss. The illustrators have created a rich iconography and there is a module for writing tales and bringing together the ingredients of a story. There are also teaching ideas which enable teachers and pupils to work on the structure of the tale, its ingredients and its variants