After skimming through the list of previous storybooks, I noticed many similarities. All of them had the exact same basic webpage layout, and several of them had missing images. Among them, a few names stood out.
One of the storybooks was titled
Fairytale Case Files. This person chose to add a detective mystery element to the classical fairy tales stories and settings. In the intro, the author gives a short description to several fairly tale cases he has solved over the years. For example, finding a missing shoe is clearly a reference to Cinderella. The individual stories in the book are a more elaborate exploration of several of the detectives cases.
Next, I chose a storybook called
Tales of the Black Cat. I know there is superstition around black cats, but I know none of the stories or where it came from. I did not see a tab on this website labeled introduction, so I read the tab labeled beginning. This is a story of friends camping. The boys plan to freak out their girlfriends by telling them the myth of an evil black cat, but instead the myth turns intro reality. There are several hints, even on the way to the campsite, that this cat is more than just a legend.
Finally, for the last storybook, I decided to do a search from all titles with the word dragons in them. The two books I found were
Dragons Anonymous and
Dragons Around the Worlds. I chose to look into Dragons Anonymous some more. This story especially appeals to me because the dragons are not the bad guys. The setting of the story is a anonymous meeting support group. They even have a fun little saying they say during every meeting. It starts like this "
I am not a villain. I am simply misunderstood. Even though I breathe fire, I do not breathe hate." This was a very clever little way to introduce the dragons in the tale. Several of the dragons at the meeting proceed to tell their personal stories.
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