In Korea, fairy tales begin with ‘Back when tigers smoked’ instead of “Once upon a time’.
Back When Tigers Smoked
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The Goose Girl By Shannon Hale
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Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
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Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
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How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.