Fairy Tales in red (Fiabe in Rosso)

Fairy Tales in red is a project about violence aganist women and gender stereotypes.

It is a brief collection of traditional fairy tales with female main characters, but with reconsidered endings. That’s because every child should learn that his own ending, the final of his life, doesn’t have to be expected, it doesnt’t have to be just one and above all it doesn’t have to be decided by anyone else.

Happiness doesn’t necessarily consist in finding a prince charming, but in finding one’s own way and a place in the world.

It is not easy to break through the relationship between victim and executioner. It is not with a book that we can correct a sick and violent relationship. But with a book we can educate on a better affective dimension. It is the best way to contrast a wrong social and cultural phenomenon.

Why traditional fairy tales with reconsidered ending?

The tales we read today are only some of the versions that exist in history. Their existence has been possible thanks to a lot of people that passed them on, changing and fitting them depending on time, place and use.

We have tried to join this current, searching traditional version to take their educational worth.

We have tried to write some new version to give them a new and ambitious message for our readers.

Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen, Snow White, Rapunzel, Rosaspina (or Sleeping Beauty) and Little Red Riding Hood by Grimm Brothers : they direct this metaphorical path against violence on women and gender stereotypes.

The graphic too is different from the classical representation of princesses, they are illustrated in a style very far from a sterotyping one. Very important is the inclusion of pieces of newspapers, as link with reality and chronicle.

And the use of red. Red is a primal color with important meanings and symbols which cannot leave anyone indifferent.

“Zapatos Rojos” ( Red Shoes)

It is a public artwork by the mexican artist Elina Chauvet, composed by a lot of female red shoes to inform against silence about the desappearing and murder of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juàrez in Mexico and to say stop about violence against women.

This book aims to be at the same time a quote and a tribute to this work.

Roberta Rossetti

Illustrator and scenographer. She has studied visual and performing arts and she is specialized in children’s illustrations and comics. She collaborates with some schools and organizes creative workshops for children and teenagers.

Lorenzo Naia

Educator, writer and blogger. He has studied communication, educational psychology and psychology of children’s drawings.

He works with children and teenagers from 2 to 14 years old and he runs some web pages inherent to the world of childhood and parenting.

Series: children

Genre: illustrated book

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