![]() He is given a job as an under-gardener in the king’s palace of his home country, Westfalin - a country roughly patterned after Germany, with German food, customs and words scattered throughout the novel - and there encounters the king’s 12 beautiful daughters. In George’s telling, Galen is a soldier coming home from a 12-year-long war with a neighboring country. The story in this case is The Twelve Dancing Princesses, as told by the Brothers Grimm. Jessica Day George, however, approaches the fairy tale novelization from a different angle: how can she, as an author, work within the bounds set by the original telling and create a captivating story? Many authors approach that problem by using the fairy tale as a loose framework, an idea upon which to build their story. ![]() The inherent challenge in writing a fairy tale is coming up with something unique, an unusual or unexpected way of telling it. ![]()
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