The most beautiful fairy tales for children

GOODNIGHT FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN

In bed, with a goodnight FavolaRead and told aloud, with the right tone of voice and pauses. This is the real secret, the simplest and oldest of all, to help your children sleep peacefullyWith cell phones, smartphones, and televisions turned off.

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BENEFITS OF GOODNIGHT FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN

Why it is important read already at an early age? According to experts, imagination develops better in the absence of screens and pictures: "words themselves help to fantasize freely, and multiply meanings and associations." Furthermore, a study by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Ohio), conducted by John Hutton, has scientifically proven that reading fairy tales to children increases their learning.

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Doctors subjected a group of children, aged between 3 and 5 years, to functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure how listening to age-appropriate readings affects brain activity. According to the results of the experiment, the children children who have been accustomed to reading fairy tales aloud since they were very young develop certain specific areas of the left hemisphere to a greater extent. brain, in particular a region that Hutton defines as a “watershed of multisensory integration between sound and image”.

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Bedtime Stories for Children

Here 10 books of bedtime stories that cannot be missing from the libraries of adults and children alike.

• One thousand and one nights, with illustrated stories, is a famous collection of oriental tales: we recommend the Usborne edition. From tales of magic lamps and enchanted lands to the adventures of Aladdin and Sinbad, the children will be fascinated by these stories full of magic and wonder.
• The stories of AesopThese are short stories, illustrated by Matteo Gaggia, published by Gribaudo, but full of wisdom, through which the author teaches the reader universal values ​​and norms of behavior. The protagonists are always animals, and at the end of the tale there's always a moral: foxes, cicadas, lions, donkeys, wolves, and even a goose that lays golden eggs. they will teach the children to recognize the eternal vices and virtues of human nature.
• Grimm's Fairy Tales, with illustrations by famous artists, published by Taschen, are the most widely read story collection in the world after the Bible. Among the most beloved stories by the Brothers Grimm and suitable for early readers, here are five timeless classics: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, Snow White, and Rapunzel.
• Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, with illustrations by Giuseppe Riccobaldi Del Bava, published by Gribaudo. Everyone knows the story of this wooden puppet, a liar, stubborn but kindhearted, who, thanks to the magic of the Blue Fairy and the love of the good Master Geppetto, will finally realize his dream and become a real boy.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, enriched with splendid illustrations, Usborne Publisher. Another great classic of children's literature that still arouses curiosity today due to its many hidden meanings. The story tells the adventures of Alice, a curious little girl who, chasing a white rabbit, slips into an underground rabbit hole and encounters various eccentric characters, such as the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat.

• Tales on the Telephone, by Gianni Rodari, published by Einaudi Ragazzi, is a collection of short stories meant for children and also beloved by adults. The literary fiction centers on a father, away from home for work, who reads a story to his daughter every evening, over the phone, of course.
• Goodnight to Pratosonno, by Chiara Carminati, with illustrations by Angelo Ruta, Einaudi Ragazzi. In Pratosonno, a story is essential for falling asleep. The protagonists of the fifteen stories are the inhabitants of the forest, with their dreams and their little adventures, perfect before bed. Read aloud, playing with the sounds and rhythms of a language somewhere between prose and poetry.
• In the land of dreams, by Robert Louis Stevenson (translated by Paola Parazzoli), with illustrations by Simona Mulazzani, Rizzoli. “My bed is a little ship / where at night my nurse takes me aboard,” says the boy, before setting sail for the kingdom of his imagination. Because in the “land of the bedspread” you can build cities, invent stories, set sail for fleets, to dream to go far away: with the certainty that in the morning you will wake up again in your own bed.
• Bimbambel, by Anna Lavatelli, with illustrations by Giulia Orecchia, Interlinea.
  "Bimbambel" is almost a magic word: a child pronounces it every night when his dad asks him what bedtime story he's being told. But each time the story is different, it changes, from catching lightning bolts to a soccer match between walruses and cod, to a giant cake baked in the mouth of a volcano, and so on, between dreams and imagination.
• Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Babalibri. A timeless classic, where the pages become the backdrop for Max's "wild" dreams, just capricious enough to be sent to bed without dinner. But suddenly, the thick trees of a forest appear in the room, the sea opens up before the child, and a little boat is ready to set sail.

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FAIRY TALE AND A FABLE?

Very often, the two terms, fairy tale and fable, are used synonymously. This isn't the case.
The fable, from Latin fabula (to tell, to tell) is a narrative, usually short, that contains, even implicitly, a moral to convey. For this reason, fairy tale characters are always realistic, reminiscent of people we encounter daily. The word "fairy tale" comes from the Latin flaba, is a longer story than a fairy tale, fantastic, with imaginary characters. Of popular origin, the fairy tale is populated by fairies, ogres, ghosts, and among the most popular fairy tales we remember Cinderella e Little Red Riding Hood. The fairy tale always has a happy ending.

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