- Comments: The comment you made, Laura, about super hero rabbits is what got me to thinking about this. What I would like to do is take a few of the Tejas tales and replace some of the characters with bunny Avengers.
- Possible Stories: Tejas Legends (I have loose plotlines for The Plant That Grows in Trees, Why the Woodpecker Pecks, Old Woolly Bird’s Sacrifice, The Swift Blue One, Why Hummingbirds Drink Only Dew, and How Sickness Entered the World)
- Sample Story: For Why Hummingbirds Drink Only Dew – that could be changed to something like Captain Bun-merica and Iron Rabbit racing across an apple orchard and the loser is never able to eat apples again. (My rabbits like apples more than they like carrots which is why I would prefer to use an apple orchard as opposed to a carrot field.)
- Bibliography: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton and illustrated by Berniece Burrough (1936).
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| I just found this after I had the idea and I'm so happy the internet exists. [x] |
Topic #2: Aesop animals on Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil, and Twitter
- Comments: Not to totally date myself, but I really enjoy the idea of someone like the Fox sitting on a chair trying to get Jerry and the audience to feel bad for him (“I’m just a hungry fox”). Before the Dog comes out and beats him up for trying to eat his friend, Rooster.
- Possible stories:
- Jerry Springer: The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox; The Farmer and the Stork; The Travelers and the Purse; The Wolf and the Lion; and The Wolf and the Lean Dog.
- Dr. Phil: The Wolf and the Kid; The Boy and the Filberts; The Plane Tree; and The Mice and the Weasels
- Twitter: The Lion and the Ass and The Wolf and His Shadow
- Sample Story: (The Wolf and the Lean Dog) The Wolf comes on the show, thinking that this is when the Lean Dog will make good on his word – instead, the Lean Dog brings out his big dog friend. Whose name is Steve Wilkos.
- Bibliography: The Aesop for Children, with illustrations by Milo Winter (1919).
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| Lean Dog and Big Dog [x] |
Topic #3: Spirits/mystical creatures as hockey players
- Comments: Hockey season is still a month out, but players are starting to return to the cities they play in for training camp and to get ready for the pre-season.
- Possible Stories: I’ve been reading the stories from the Pacific Northwest and British North America units and I think that it would be awesome to treat characters such as Beaver (from How Beaver Stole Fire) as immortal spirits. Do they their own magic? After people were created, did they learn how to shape shift? (Yes, I’m going to say yes. And then they played with humans and learned their games – lacrosse, ball games, and eventually hockey.)
- Sample Story:
- Pacific Northwest: How Silver-Fox Created the World (player I pictured: Willie Mitchell); How Coyote Got His Cunning (Beau Bennett); How Beaver Stole Fire (Chris Pronger because of this)
- British North America: Origin of Rivers in Queen Charlotte (Carey Price, pictured below); Creation of Light (Evander Kane); Grizzly Bear and Coyote (Shea Weber and Brent Seabrook respectively).
- Bibliography: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon, by Katharine Berry Judson (1910).; Myths and Legends of British North America by Katharine Berry Judson (1917).
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| Carey Price is the clear choice for Raven. |
- Comments: Imagine Abraham Lincoln as a vampire (this is my shout out to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith), George Washington as literally a bald eagle (shout out to my Assassin’s Creed fixation and partially inspired by the video below; warning: the video contains mild violence), and Obama as a unicorn.
- Possible Stories: I just really enjoy the idea of Vampire Abraham Lincoln being involved in the civil rights movement of the 60s.
- Sample Story: The Lion and The Unicorn
- Bibliography: The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).
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