#MemoirFest Day 17 – Write about Your Favorite Disney Movie

A Chronological List of Most of the Early Disney Movies — Which I Call the Golden Age of Disney Movies. I was born in 1950, and Ole Yeller was the first movie that I saw in a theater. It broke my heart. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs December 21, 1937 Pinocchio February 7, 1940…

#MemoirMondays November 15, 2021 – Write about Blackbirds or Crows

Especially in the USA, Crows or Blackbirds are simply part of the landscape, and over time, they have become associated with the Autumn time of year. I suppose that is because we associate Scarecrows with the fall, and what is a Scarecrows job? To scare crows. Perhaps because they are black, crows became associated with…

Little Red Riding Hood – Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

[Red’s mother packed a basked and sent Red through the woods with it to her grandmother’s house.] Picture Book Writers Often Allow Their Illustrations to Create the Setting: Hyman’s Written Creation of the Setting of Grandmother’s House “‘Oh, it’s a good fifteen minutes farther into the wood. Her house is the one by those three…