Ep 35 - A Cat, Fairies Be Disturbed

From River Reads by River Wilde

March 15, 2025 · 58 min · Season 4 · Episode 35

About this episode

This episode features tales from The Blue Fairy Book and discusses gender roles in fairy tales.

This week on River Reads, Episode 35- A Cat, Fairies Be Disturbed, features two longer tale from the collection The Blue Fairy Book from Andrew Lang, called The History of Whittington and The Terrible Head Remember to Tune in weekly for our Gender Blender segment, where we flip and play with traditional gender roles, reimagining classic fairy tales. Only revealing which tale is our Gender Blender tale at the end of each episode. River Reads is not a kids show but not n...

People in this episode

Host: River Wilde

Topics covered

fairy tales
gender roles
storytelling
children's literature
classic tales

Keywords

fairy tales
gender blender
Whittington
The Terrible Head
Andrew Lang

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, The Terrible Head