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This week, I want to plan my next storybook story retelling Pig and Pepper of the Alice in Wonderland saga. I read this story for an extra credit reading , so I will look closer into how it can shape my storybook here. Source In the Pig and Pepper story, Alice comes across the Duchess, the Chesire cat, the Frog and Fish Footmen and the pig-child. This introduced many Wonderland characters that I want to include in my storybook. Particularly what stood out in this story is the Chesire cat telling Alice that if she went a certain direction, she would find the Mad Hatter. This interested me because in my last story, Alice meets the Mad Hatter. In my next storybook story, I think it could be fun to have Alice reconnect with the Mad Hatter alongside the Chesire cat. It would make the transition between story 2 and 3 on my website make more sense, and it'd show how interactions take place in Wonderland around the interesting creatures that are friends (the Caterpillar was not liked...

Pig and Pepper Alice is continuing her way through Wonderland and spots odd creatures. First, she comes across a Fish-Footman (a fish head on a human body) and a Frog-Footman. Alice watched them interact and found it comical, so she ran into the woods to laugh. Upon returning she came up to the Fish Footman who was near the door and asked to be let in. The Footman was somewhat rude, she thought, because he just kept asking her if she thought she'd one day get in (which she obviously wanted to). After many interactions like this, she realized he was just idiotic and went in herself. Alice saw a Duchess nursing a child, a cat and a cook cooking soup that had far too much pepper in it, as everyone in the home was sneezing except for the cat. Alice is introduced to the cat by the Duchess and gets told it's a Chesire cat. Alice found it odd that a cat was grinning in the way he was. Photo of the Footmen from Wikipedia. Pig and Pepper (cont) The Duchess told Alice that all ca...

This story is about Wemicus and his daughter who had many husbands. Wemicus put these husbands through a lot, and only one of them remained because he was able to outsmart him. The daughter warned her one husband of the "moccasins camp," which is where the rest of her husbands were killed. When hanging out with Wemicus once, the husband was told that camp is where they were going. He looked for ways to combat what would happen, and he changed the moccasins hanging over the fire so that his were in Wemicus' place. This left Wemicus with no shoes and the husband left him alone there. Wemicus made shoes out of spruce and came home to his daughter and his husband, which they were upset about hoping he'd be gone for good. Wemicus continued to try to trick the man into doing dangerous things that had killed off her previous husbands. The husband kept outsmarting Wemicus, but he was never successful. The husband kept outsmarting him. Wemicus insisted on racing the man, and...

The Jealous Uncle This story is about an "unnatural uncle" who constantly kills his nephews. When boys are born to his sister, he is determined to kill them. However, when girls are born, he lets them live. After suffering deaths of her boy children, the woman got pregnant to another boy. She decided to tell the boy's uncle that the child would be a girl, and he let her live. The mom dressed her new child as if he were a girl, and his life was spared until the boy revealed to his uncle that he was a boy on accident. The uncle was determined to kill the boy, but the boy insisted to his mother that he would not suffer like his siblings before him. The uncle and the boy set out to find wood, and the child gets trapped by the uncle in the midst of a log. The child came with sour berries, however, that helped him escape the log by rubbing it on the interior. The uncle was furious and told his wife he would now, more than ever, be sure to find and kill the boy. The Jealo...