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This fairy tale for children is a true story of a little girl cured of a mild problem by a fairy doctor in her eyes.
Let us see the analysis of this brief story for kids and commentary about the characteristics and principal elements of its structure:
Fairy tale
Even though it is not really a fairy tale it is undeniable that for the little girl the doctor has all the characteristics of a good fairy. One could also say that it is an adventure story, because for the protagonist the visit to the doctor had a lot of emotion.
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A common characteristic to all the collection of free short stories for kids in this online book is to contain love stories or tales, even if it isn’t always apparent at first glance. Love is the context or background that gives cohesion to all the stories, its interpretation and its assimilation; it is even a tool, necessary to understand the baddies.
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The brief or short stories about love or with a happy ending for babies and small children are ideal for bedtime in the form of spoken tales, because they put them in a state of relaxation ideal for a nice rest and an adequate functioning of the childlike brain in that state.
It would be good to point out that in spoken tales, above all in bedtime stories, even in the very short ones, often the boy or girl fall asleep before the story is finished. They have fallen asleep in a world of fantasy in which they have probably incorporated new elements to the script.
An important element is that the boys and girls should have the opportunity to choose the spoken tale or bedtime story or, at least, their opinion should always be taken into account.
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In the stories in English as well as in the short stories in Spanish and other languages, the grammatical structure is very simple and the vocabulary is very basic because of their addressees, limiting themselves to describe very basic aspects or elements.
Also, the repetition of words in stories reinforces the vocabulary used and the time sequence insists in the idea of the persistence of time like one of the central axes of our life.
With style, analysis is similar, on occasions the brief story or tale has to be very simple, so simple that the majority of the times they are short sentences connected with the word “and” and with comas or full stops. A clear example is the use of the symbol “~” in the fairy story The Doctor (story in English in its original version) which means a longer than normal pause, because if the children are very little they need time to understand the words and sentences.
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Of course every child is a world, but my experience tells me that the most important element is not the technical quality of the personalized or original fairy tale, but the love that it manages to transmit.
I don’t mean to say that we shouldn’t tell traditional or classic stories for kids, because a lot of them are really great, but that they can be completed with original fairy tales closer to the boys or girls, making them value and ask for one type or another at bedtime with a spoken tale.
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The little ones are grateful for the attention and care that is given to them and they perceive the difference between classic or traditional tales and personalized original fairy tales, albeit vaguely and progressively.
The fact that a short story for kids is a personalized tale does not mean that the protagonist has to have the same name as the child who is listening to the spoken tale; it doesn’t even mean that the protagonists have to be children.
Because it is based on a true story it is a quite personalized story in its origin. In any case, the tales or stories of adventure should be personalized to facilitate the identification of the children with the characters and to stimulate their imagination.
In this fairy tale, the personalization can be very simple, because all children go to the doctor’s sooner or later.
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Normally, the images of the short stories online correspond to the characters or elements of the true stories. The images of the story are photos although on occasions these are altered so that they look like drawings.
This fairy tale is the meticulous description of a true story. All little children have to go to the doctor’s for revision and sooner or later something happens that is out of the ordinary.
This fairy tale for children easily describes the social function of doctors and nurses.
It is a good idea to give confidence to a sick child en relation to doctors and nurses, because it will alleviate the normal tension associated to health problems. In addition, it will reinforce the idea of social behavior in small children; that is to say, not only their near family look after them but that there exits a society in which people help each other.
The fact that the reality is perceived like a fairy story helps the little children to interpret it inside their great world.
In the tales based on true stories it is a good idea to perform the contrary process used on the personalized tales.
Little children feel strong and clever when they understand the messages and the relations between the story and the real world. For that opportunity that they are offered by these stories about life they feel grateful and they have a natural tendency to return the favor by accepting the moral of the story, if it is reasonable, of course.
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The fairy tale for Children The Doctor is a English story in its original version.
All tales but two are short stories in Spanish in their original version. In addition, all the brief children stories in this free online book are in Spanish, English and other languages.
THE FAIRY DOCTOR
By Caroline Sedgwick
Once upon a time, there was a little girl called ~~~Susana;
~and she was a very good girl ~and she was very pretty ~and she was very clever;
~and her mummy ~and daddy loved her ~~~very much.
~and one day, Susana, started limping, she couldn’t walk properly,
~and her leg hurt ~and her mummy ~and daddy were very worried,
because they didn’t know how it had happened,
or why it had happened or when it had happened.
So they decided to take her to ~~~ the fairy doctor.
So they got into the car ~and they drove out of the garage
~and they drove to the fairy doctor’s surgery
~and when they got there they sat in the waiting room for a while,
waiting for the fairy doctor to come out
~and when she came out she said “hello Susana ~and what’s the matter with you?”
~and Susana said “oh, doctor, my leg hurts, ~and I can’t walk properly”
~and the doctor said “well come into my office ~and lie down on the bed
~and we’ll see what we can do”. So Susana lay down on the bed
~and the fairy doctor started to feel her left leg (massage, massage, prod, prod)
~and she worked her way from the thigh right down to the foot ~and up again
~and then she said “no, that’s not the leg, it must be the other leg”
~and she went to the right leg
~and she worked her way from the thigh right down to the foot ~and up again
~and then she said “I know what the problem is, the problem is ~~~ the knee”
~and so she went fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, prod, prod, prod massage, massage, massage
~~~~~~ CLICK ~and Susana “doctor, doctor, my leg doesn’t hurt anymore”
~and the fairy doctor said “get down off the bed ~and walk across the room”
~and Susana walked across the room ~and she didn’t limp
~and she rushed over to the fairy doctor and she gave her a big kiss
~and she said “doctor, doctor, thank you for making my leg all better “
~and the magic doctor said “it was a pleasure, come back any time”.
~and Susana ~and her mummy ~and her daddy got back in the car ~and they drove home
~and when they got home Susana had a lovely warm bath
~and got into her lovely warm pyjamas
~and she had some lovely warm supper
~and then, she practiced walking, ~and she walked from the telly to the sofa
~and from the computer to the dining room table
~and her leg didn’t hurt ~and she could walk properly
~and then she went to bed
~and she went straight to sleep because she was very tired
~and it had been a very long day
~and that’s the end of the story
~and they all lived happily ever after
~and now
~~~~~~- SLEEP!
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