Thanks Breanna for writing down all these blog topics!
Ok, truth be told,when I was six I loved oddities. The book that stands out most clearly in my mind is Mrs. Piggeywiggles something or other. I remember that my mother used to use the as a threat to what would happen if I didn't listen. In one story in particular, there is a young girl who doesn't like to bath. Infact she simply won't. So the dirt piles up on her skin so deep that seeds actually start to sprout. I'm sure the story was meant to encourage bathing but I thought it was fabulous that you could get that! dirty. so dirty that you could grow something on your skin and I'm fairly certain I did try to plant something. Didn't work though.
My favorite story though was actually a movie. It was called the Last Unicorn. In it the heroine is the very last of her kind because the evil bull loves the sight of unicorns so much that he is completely unwilling to share with the world so he captures them. While the unicorn wanders around the woods she is captured by an evil witches caravan who puts her in her traveling zoo. Then, when there is a threat of the bull coming, the evil witch transforms the unicorn into a women. Some kindly zoo keeper lets her escape and she returns to the woods. Thus begins her quest to find the rest of her kind. Along the way she meets the handsome prince. They fall madly in love, maybe he more than she, and they continue together to find the rest of the unicorns. They do find them, and defeat the red bull. Then comes the ultimate choice for her return to her own form and own kind to save the unicorns or choose love. So she sacrifices her desires for the love of something greater. I loved the music, and the adventure. I loved that it was a girl who was the hero and made the choices for herself.
And there we have it. My all time childhood favorite stories.
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