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These links to the fairy stories may be used by children, their friends and families to act out these plays. To help facilitate this, as
Covid-19 has caused many to have economic constraints, the booklets may be accessed free of charge as long as they are used
with copyright acknowledgement.
ACTING UP WITH FAIRY STORIES

Brenda Joy, 2020

Six beautifully illustrated short poem/plays converted to flipbooks,
re-telling well-known and well-loved fairy stories and
incorporating the moral messages imbedded in each.

Play 1 – Cinderella https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/cscw/
Play 2 -The Three Billy Goats Gruff – https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/jjuw/
Play 3 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/jpqh/
Play 4 – Rapunzel https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/mwit/
Play 5 - Little Red Riding Hood https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/mblo/
Play 6 - Beauty and the Beast https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/wzso/
Previously published Free XpresSion June 2020.

Website - www.brendajoy-bushpoet.com.au
Facebook --
https://www.facebook.com/people/Brenda-Joy-Pritchard/100013332400258
Host-editor, Young Xpressions,
Free XpresSion magazine https://www.freexpression.com.au

Pronunciation

poem
New
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Book
Others may stumble, but not you
on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through. “Come for a walk
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, that Banjo walked
to learn of more familiar traps? in winton in 1895.”
Beware of heard, a dreadful word, Jeff Close OAM
that looks like beard, but sounds like bird. Chair, Waltzing
And dead — it’s said like bed not bead — Matilda Centre Ltd
and for goodness sake don’t call it deed! A5 size, 360 pages
Watch out for meat and great and threat $35 posted
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
What did the newsppers have to say when solicitor
A moth is not the moth in mother,
nor both in brother, broth in brother. and poet Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson visited
And here is not a match for there, Winton 125 years ago? During his visit, he and
nor dear and fear for bear and pear. Christina Macpherson created what was became
And then there’s dose and rose and lose — Australia’s best loved song — Waltzing Matilda.
Just look them up — and goose and choose, Through contemporary newspaper reports, the book
And cork and work and card and ward, paints a picture of the Winton that Banjo visited in
and font and front and word and sword, 1895-96.
and do and go, and thwart and cart — Combine with “Winton’s Wisp of Banjo Paterson”
come, come I’ve hardly made a start. double CD $50 posted.
A dreadful language? Man alive! Rhyming Verse Of Denis Kevins book $60 posted
I’d mastered it when I was five. www.gregorynorth.com.au
Author unknown 5 Dryandra Place, LINDEN NSW

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