Fantasy Genre

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Fantasy Genre

• Doerun School 2004

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What is a fantasy?

• Fantasies can be stories that involve beings and
  events that could not exist in real life. These
  works may begin realistically but soon turn into
  stories that could never really happen.  

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Characteristics of Fantasy

• Use of time travel
• Imaginary beings from other planets
• Animals that talk or act human
• Fantastic creatures may be part of a fantasy
  unicorns, trolls, elves, etc.
• Sometimes characters speak a fantasy language.
• Conflicts involve magic or impossible strategies.

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Magical objects may be used.

• Mirrors
• Rings
• Cloaks
• Lamps

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Types of Fantasy

• High Fantasy Epic type Hero saves the world.
• Game Related stories based on movie or video
  game
• Historical Fantasy Magic set in past era or age.

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Heroic Fantasy - King Arthur

• Tales of a great king who fought off Germanic
  invaders from the time the Romans left Britain.
• Wizard Merlin helps and guides.
• An enchanted sword Excalibur.
• The Round Table Holy Grail.

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Heroic Fantasy The Hobbit

• Magic Ring
• Little man, Bilbo Baggins, challenged to rescue a
  treasure from a dragon.
• Author John Tolkien

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Heroic Fantasy Chronicles of Narnia

• Magical land called Narnia.
• Travel back through wardrobe (closet).
• Heroes Aslan the Lion, children
• Villains witch, evil minions.

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Charlottes Web

• Animals that talk.
• Spiders that spell.
• Heroine spider saves Wilbur the pigs life.
• Animals solve problems.

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Lloyd Alexander

• Time Cat
• Black Cauldron
• The Cat who Wished to be a Man
• The Kings Fountain

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Natalie Babbitt

• Tuck Everlasting
• Search for Delicious
• The Devils Storybook

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Lynn Reid Banks

• The Indian in the Cupboard
• Key to the Indian
• Return of the Indian
• The Fairy Rebel

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Frank L. Baum The Wizard of Oz

• Dorothy is whisked from her home in Kansas to the
  Magical land of Oz.
• Meets fantastic characters flying monkeys, tin
  man, cowardly lion, scarecrow.

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James Barrie - Peter Pan

• Wendy is stolen by Peter Pan and carried to Never
  Land.
• Fantastic Characters pirates, Tinkerbell
• Time stands still. Children stay young.

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Patricia Coombs

• Dorrie and the Witchs Imp
• Dorrie and the Goblin

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Lucy Boston

• Children of Green Know
• The Sea Egg

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Carlo Collodi Pinocchio

• Puppet who becomes real boy.
• Geppetto, the whale
• Pinnocchio has many adventures.

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Bruce Coville

• Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher
• Jennifer Murdleys Toad

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James Howe

• Bunnicula
• Return to Howliday Inn
• Bunnicula Strikes Again!
• Nighty Nightmare
• Celery Stalks at Midnight

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Jane Langton

• Time Bike
• The Fledgling

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Ursula LeGuin

• Catwings
• Catwings Return
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
• Jane on Her Own

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George MacDonald

• Light Princess
• Princess and the Goblins
• Practical Princess

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Astrid Lindgren

• Pippi Longstocking

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Chronicles of Narnia

• Lion Witch and the Wardrobe
• Horse and His Boy
• The Silver Chair
• The Last Battle
• Prince Caspian
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Carol Matas

• Safari Adventures in LegoLand
• Adventures in Legoland

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Robert Munsch

• Paper Bag Princess
• Millicent and the Wind

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C.S. Adler

• Silver Coach

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Mary Norton

• The Borrowers
• The Borrowers Afloat
• The Borrowers Afield
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks

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J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

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Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events

• Bad Beginning
• Austere Academy
• Miserable Mill
• Reptile Room

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Julia Sauer

• Fog Magic

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Jon Scieszka

• Tut Tut
• Knights of the Kitchen Table

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Louis Sachar

• Holes

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• Headless Cupid
• Black and Blue Magic
• Witches of Worm

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P.L. Travers

• Mary Poppins
• Mary Poppins A to Z

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E.B. White

• Stuart Little
• Charlottes Web
• Trumpet of the Swan

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Elvria Woodruff

• Magnificent Mummy Maker

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Elizabeth Winthrop

• Castle in the Attic

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David Wiesner

• Tuesday

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Collins Gregor the Overlander

• 11 year old Gregor and his 2 year old sister are
  pulled into an underground world.
• They must battle men, bats, cockroaches, and
  spiders while on a quest foretold by an ancient
  prophecy.

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Colfer Artemis Fowl

• When a 12 year old evil genius captures a fairy
  and demanding a ransom, the fairies fight back
  with technology, magic, and a nasty troll.

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Kate DiCamillo

• Tale of Despereaux

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Cornelia Funke Dragon Rider

• Firedrake, a silver dragon is joined by an orphan
  boy and a brownie in the quest to find the Rim of
  Heaven.

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Juster - Phantom Tollbooth

• Milo finds a car and a tollbooth in his bedroom
  and drives off to rescue the lost princesses,
  Rhyme an dReason aided by the Spelling Bee and a
  watchdog named Tock.

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Levine Ella Enchanted

• Ella is given the gift of obedience as a child
  and struggles to return it.