I loved the
children’s book Stone Soup. I always thought it was a traditional fairy tale. You
know, like Grimm or Perrault or Hans Christian Andersen. Though it may have
sold darn near as many books as those authors, it was written in 1968 and the
author, Ann McGovern, recently died of cancer at the age of 85. Just knowing
she is gone . . . well, I shall miss her. I have a love affair with fairy
tales—new or old—and with nursery rhymes. Readers of my poetry find allusions
to them sprinkled throughout. Now, perhaps I shall write something with at
least a nod to Ann and the fairy tale that really wasn’t. Or was. Does a genre
ever really die?
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