010. Mouse Breaks Fairytales - What happens when you apply logic to folk tales

Sarah meets with Author, Storyteller and Theatre director J A Zarifian to chat about her inspirations as a storyteller and writer.

Jaz's book Once upon Mouse is modern take on timeless truths, familiar rhymes, fables, and fairy tales, told through the eyes of an ‘ultra-logical’ mouse, a non-predatory cat, and a teenage story-teller.  Sarah and Jaz discuss the role of fairytales in modern society among other things.

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Books Mentioned:

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

Clever Maids - The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales - Valerie Paradiz

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman