An Undone Fairy Tale by Ian Lendler and illustrated by Whitney Martin is a classic fairy tale story with a princess, a knight, and a dragon with a little twist. The illustrator in the story, Ned, has not yet finished painting the story. As the story progresses Ned’s helper constantly ask for the reader to slow down so Ned can finish the painting and when the reader turns the page Ned is forced to make changes to the story in order to get it done in time. For example Ned can’t kind enough horses for the knights to ride on, so they ride fish instead and the dragon is still taking a shower so the knights must fight a giant pretzel. At the end of the story when the knight finally makes it to the princess’s room he falls through a giant hole in the ground that Ned did not have time to fix and the princess is forced to rescue the fallen knight. This is an excellent book to use in my classroom because it is an outstanding story with a hilarious subplot and the illustrations are…show more content… I would start the lesson by first reading regular fairy tales to my class (two or three different ones would work). After reading the fairy tales we would come up with a list of common elements in the different books, like there was a knight who always saved the princess. Once we made the list the class and I would read An Undone Fairy Tale and then compare and contrast this book to the previous stories we read. Some of the differences would be the princess saving the knight and there was an evil step dad instead of an evil step mom. After we have compared and contrasted the stories together, I would then give each student their own unique fairytale and have them compare and contrast it with the other fairy tales we read as a class. Using fairy tales as a way to learn how to compare and contrast is a great way to get every student interested in the
