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#39194 - Tue Mar 27 2001 11:51 PM A long shot
Anonymous No longer registered	I remember a story from my childhood. It was about a little kingdom about the size of a grain of sand. The kingdom was endangered from the outside world so the king had to get everyone to shout at the same time so they could be heard. Does this ring bells for anyone? I would love to find out what the story was called.
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#39195 - Wed Mar 28 2001 02:05 AM Re: A long shot
turquoise Mainstay Registered: Tue Dec 19 2000 Posts: 834 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	zozo, were you dropping acid? ------------------ "warm and soft, in the flesh.." -blondie.
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#39196 - Wed Mar 28 2001 04:10 AM Re: A long shot
Anonymous No longer registered	Turquoise Not when I was only six or seven years old. I loved the story so much it stuck in my mind. I think it was in a big book of stories. I think that one of the other stories was about the little old lady who lived in a vinegar bottle but then I read so much as a child I might have got books mixed. Childhood favourites of mine included the Wishing Chair (Enid Blyton) and the Zozo books (Curious George)
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#39197 - Wed Mar 28 2001 05:10 AM Re: A long shot
turquoise Mainstay Registered: Tue Dec 19 2000 Posts: 834 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	whoa, whoa, whoa! the vinegar bottle sounds oddly familiar. now, thats disconcerting... ------------------ "warm and soft, in the flesh.." -blondie.
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#39198 - Fri Apr 06 2001 08:25 PM Re: A long shot
naturechik Participant Registered: Sat Mar 17 2001 Posts: 17 Loc: sydney, nsw, australia	Jenn, what book are u talking about? My favourite book when I was growing up was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I was at a very impressionable age and obviously grew up and became Meg when I really wanted to be Jo. _________________________ How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude. But grant me still A friend in my retreat To whom i may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
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#39199 - Sat Apr 07 2001 07:55 PM Re: A long shot
Linda1 Star Poster Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 11250 Loc: Munchkinland	I remember the lady in a vinegar bottle story! Don't remember what it was called, but I do remember a story that sounds like that! I'll think about it and see if anything comes to mind. _________________________ Cats know what we feel. They don't care, but they know.
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#39200 - Sat Apr 07 2001 10:14 PM Re: A long shot
Anonymous No longer registered	I have found out that 'The Old Lady Who Lived in the Vinegar Bottle' was written by Rumer Godden ( I'm not sure in what year). But one web site I read said that a fairy gave the old lady wishes but another site said a fish did! I looked at other stories by this author but nothing seems to fit the first story I asked about. My older sister reckons I have got it all wrong anyway, she seems to think that it was a cartoon that we saw on TV. While I'm on the subject of half-remembered children's stories, does anyone know who wrote the story about the Wolf and the Seven Little Goats?
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#39201 - Fri Nov 03 2006 07:32 AM Re: A long shot
treefarm Learning the ropes... Registered: Fri Nov 03 2006 Posts: 1	I remember this story too - it was one of my favorites in grade school - they used to have a flim strip of the story that they'd play for us once and a while. I can remember a couple songs that were part of the story - "Doodley-doodle, doodley-doodle, she lived in a vinegar bottle", and "little fish, little fish, I have a wish". The old woman would go to the little stone bridge over the creek and recite the "little fish" ditty, and then the fish would appear and grant her a wish. I'm struggling to remember the rest, but in this information age, we've got to be able to find out more. My fiance thinks I am ridiculous for even caring about this, but for some reason I recalled that "vinegar bottle" song the other day, and I began searching for information - that's how I came upon this thread. Good luck!
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#39202 - Fri Nov 03 2006 08:20 AM Re: A long shot
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	' Now the Fairy she went east... and the fairy she went west .." I tell it about once or twice a year to my classes. It is a good moral story for those who are never satisfied with what they have. It is not originally Rumer Godden's but by "trad" I think. I will check. Here is the whole thing , as trad as I can find.. The Irish version has the old lady complaining " Oh tis a shame, tis a shame, so it is, tis a shame..." _________________________ Wandering aimlessly through FT since 1999.
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#39203 - Fri Nov 03 2006 12:46 PM Re: A long shot
Taesma Prolific Registered: Fri Jun 20 2003 Posts: 1179 Loc: Bay Area California USA	The very first story mentioned in this thread sounds like "Horton Hears a Who", Dr. Suess... As for the other, I have never hear the vinegar bottle one; it is, however, basically the same story (or at any rate the same moral lesson) as "The Fisherman and His Wife". Maybe that's what the earlier poster was remembering when they remembered a fish. The Fisherman and His Wife I once staged a children's theatre production of fairy tales that I set to music from different eras. That was my modern one--the rap song "You Talk To Much" by Run-DMC was turned into "You Fish Too Much". _________________________ "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." ~ Jerry Seinfeld
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