Fairy Tales Showdown

I just opened up my laptop and found this tab open and realized I hadn't shared this yet. So in the theory better late than never, here is a link and excerpt from TV.com Throwdown the Results Show: Once Upon a Time vs. Grimm by Tim Surette:

Last week we asked you to tell us which new fairy tale drama does a better job of bringing the classic stories to life—Grimm and its real-world fairy tales, or Once Upon a Time and its dual universes that keep fairy tales intact and separate from our world—and boy, did you respond! Pat yourselves on the backs, guys, because the story received more than 200 comments and many of you showed real passion for the topic.

The results are obviously in favor of Once Upon a Time. The article shares some comments from viewers, too, in favor of each. Quite interesting.

So which one is your favorite so far? Is TV.com's small sample accurate to SurLaLune readers too?

CafePress Coupons

I know some of you are interested in CafePress items through the SurLaLune store so I thought I would share these coupon codes for sales today and part of this week. There are many new items available through CafePress such as new phone covers and Kindle cases so if there is something you want, please let me know and I will try to design it and make it available. There won't be quick turn around today, but I should be able to meet needs before the end of the second sale also detailed below. And as always, thanks for supporting SurLaLune!

Sale details:

Free economy shipping on orders over$40* in shops only
Coupon code: SHOPNOV28
Sale starts November 28, 2011 and ends November 28, 2011

*Free Economy shipping for cafepress.com shop orders of $40 or more, excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges and applicable sales tax. All orders must be added to cart from CafePress.com shops only. Excludes framed print orders and CafePress Marketplace orders. Delivery address must be within the United States and cannot be a PO Box. All orders will be Economy shipping unless the order is not eligible for Economy shipping (e.g., order exceeds Economy weight restrictions), in which case order will be automatically upgraded to free Standard shipping. Coupon code SHOPNOV28 must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on November 28, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on November 28, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). Offer valid online at cafepress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.

And a sale for most of the rest of the week starting tomorrow is:

Sale details:

15% off $45* in shops only
Coupon code: ADEC1145
Sale starts November 29, 2011 and ends December 1, 2011

*Save 15% off CafePress.com shop orders of $45 or more, excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges and applicable sales tax. All orders must be added to cart from CafePress.com shops only. Excludes CafePress marketplace purchases (e.g. all products added to cart from URLs beginning with the following (i) http://shop.cafepress.com, (ii) http://t-shirts.cafepress.com and/or (iii) http://www.cafepress.com/sk/), Gift Certificates, Flip products, SIGG bottles, Thermos products, yoga mats, and CafePress Make and bulk orders. Coupon code ADEC1145 must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on November 29, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on December 1, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). Offer valid online at cafepress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Dragons and Monsters Pop-Up by Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Dragons and Monsters Pop-Up by Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda has dropped in price to $16.79. I've already bought a copy for one gift and another for myself. I got to see Reinhart's presentation for the book at the Southern Festival of Books and it doesn't disappoint.

Book description:

Lurking behind this intriguing cover, a Kraken grapples with a ship on the high seas; dragons from Eastern and Western traditions spring to life; and a Medusa, snake-hair twisting and hissing, turns the reader to stone. Deeper inside, an ancient, decrepit vampire rises from his coffin; a lycanthrope is caught in the light of the full moon and transforms; and Bigfoot hides behind a tree, ducking his human pursuer. Master paper engineers Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda unfold the legends and lore of cultures around the world to reveal these stunning creatures and many more. Pop-up fans and fantasy lovers will be equally enthralled by the dynamic creatures depicted in this astonishing volume, the climax of the Encyclopedia Mythologica trilogy.

The other two books, less elaborate but still great, are also deeply discounted:

Bargain Ebook: The Universe of Oz: Essays on Baum's Series and Its Progeny

The Universe of Oz: Essays on Baum's Series and Its Progeny edited by Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh  is another bargain ebook currently discounted to $3.99, 89% off the $35.00 paper price. So for all you Wizard of Oz fans, this should be of interest. I own a review copy and have posted about it before. I'll share the description and table of contents again here.

Description from the publisher:

The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum’s first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children’s literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the scholarly imagination as well. The seventeen essays in this book address numerous questions of the boundaries between literature, film, and stage--and these have become essential to Oz scholarship. Together the essays explore the ways in which Oz tells us much about ourselves, our society, and our journeys.

About the Author
Kevin K. Durand is Math and Physics Professor at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Mary K. Leigh is a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the University of Arkansas.

Table of Contents:

Preface; or, Scholars Walk the Yellow Brick Road 1

PART ONE: OZ AND LITERARY CRITICISM
1. The Emerald Canon: Where the Yellow Brick Road Forks
(Kevin K. Durand) 11
2. Dorothy and Cinderella: The Case of the Missing Prince and the Despair of the Fairy Tale
(Agnes B. Curry and Josef Velazquez) 24
3. Psychospiritual Wizdom: Dorothy’s Monomyth in The Wizard of Oz
( Jené Gutierrez) 54
4. “Come out, come out, wherever you are”: How Tina Landau’s 1969 Stages a Queer Reading of The Wizard of Oz
(Ronald Zank) 61
5. “Something between higgledy-piggledy and the eternal sphere”: Queering Age/Sex in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl
(Emily A. Mattingly) 77
6. No Place Like the O.Z.: Heroes and Hybridity in Sci-Fi’s Tin Man
(Kristin Noone) 94
7. The Wizard of Oz as a Modernist Work
(Charity Gibson) 107

PART TWO: OZ AND PHILOSOPHY
8. Ask the Clock of the Time Dragon: Oz in the Past and the Future
(Randall Auxier) 121
9. Down the Yellow Brick Road: Good and Evil, Freewill, and Generosity in The Wizard of Oz
(Gail Linsenbard) 136
10. The “Wonderful” Wizard of Oz and Other Lies: A Study of Inauthenticity in Wicked: A New Musical
(Mary K. Leigh) 147
11. Memories Cloaked in Magic: Memory and Identity in Tin Man
(Anne Collins Smith) 158
12. The Wicked Wizard of Oz
(Kevin K. Durand) 172
13. A Feminist Stroll Down the Yellow Brick Road: Dorothy’s Heroine’s Adventure
(Paula Kent) 179

PART THREE: OZ AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE
14. The Wiz: American Culture at Its Best
(Rhonda Williams) 191
15. The Wiz as the Seventies’ Version of The Wizard of Oz: An Analysis
(Claudia A. Beach) 200
16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Religious Populism and Spiritual Capitalism
(Kevin Tanner) 204
17. The Ethics and Epistemology of Emancipation in Oz
( Jason M. Bell and Jessica Bell) 225

About the Contributors 247
Index 251

Bargain Ebook: Twelve Dancing Princesses by Brigette Barrager

It's Cyber Monday and there are countless ebook deals today which I am busily exploring, with over 900 books deeply discounted at Amazon. I will be exploring the titles myself and will share specific ones related to fairy tales and folklore if I find some. To get started, here is my first picture book purchase for Kindle. Since I now have a Kindle Fire, too, I wanted to try out some picture books and this was a great place to start. I don't imagine myself becoming a big proponent of digital picture books--I might be addicted to novels and other reading on an ereader, but I am for regular paper all the way on paperbooks. But I also like having some as backup.

So my first ebook picture book for $2.99 is Twelve Dancing Princesses by Brigette Barrager. I didn't own this in paper and now I at least own it as an ebook. Lovely. My second purchase, not a fairy tale, but a book I like was Duck! Rabbit! for $1.99 because I just like that one. I own many, many picture books and this is another favorite.

Call for Papers: How Do Our Views About Hair Affect Children?

This one is quite intriguing and I do hope at least one Rapunzel article makes it into the final collection! I know Rapunzel intrigued me with her hair as a child and now several new generations will get Disney's take on it, too, to influence them.

How Do Our Views About Hair Affect Children?

From Barbie, Britney and Rapunzel to Pocahontas and Beyoncé, matters related to hair can be quite complicated when it comes to race, gender and class. A special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn will look at how hair affects the politics of identity in children's literature and for children generally. Submit essays of 15-20 pages (4,500-6,000 words) and a 250-word abstract by noon July 1, 2012, to editor Neal A. Lester, Dean of Humanities and Professor of English at Arizona State University.

Advertising: Stihl Blower & The Three Little Pigs

Stihl Blower. The big bad blow.

Advertising Agency: DCS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Creative Directors: Roberto Callage, Régis Montagna
Art Director: André Pauletti
Copywriter: Patrick Matzenbacher
Illustrator: Macacolândia
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Via Ads of the World.

Now, I liked this one. It worked for me.