She is a quirky kid, very much her own person. This is Annabelle, and she attends school like a modern child, but other than that, this could be a fairytale. Modern picture books may use many tropes straight out of fairytale, but storytellers tend to name their characters. This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn.īut it turns out it isn’t. The Magic Porridge Pot is what this reminds me of most, because the overflowing porridge changes the town as significantly as Annabelle changes the look of the town.īut in plot, this story is more like The Magic Paintbrush, a Chinese folktale which has been re-visioned by other contemporary picture book creators such as The Magical Life Of Mr Renny by Leo Timmers. Such tales are classified by Aarne-Thompson as 565. There is also the bottomless object found in many fairytales, for instance the porridge in The Magic Porridge Pot. This is a fairytale setting, with a village where everyone knows each other, the local crank, and where aristocrats from across the water can hear about you and pay you a personal visit. Although this is a contemporary story, it utilises fairytale tropes, in a mostly fairytale setting. Extra Yarn (2012) is a picture book written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen.
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