Liv's Folklore Blog

The book I chose is, Trouble with Trolls by Jan Brett.

This Trouble with Trolls book explains about how a girl named Treva and her dog planning a trip to walk over Mt. Baldy to see her friend. On the way up she encountered five trolls, one at a time, each troll wanted her dog! She had to find a way to get her dog back by tricking each troll with a piece of her clothing that she said was very beautiful. After encountering each troll, she and her dog finally arrived the top of mountain as well all five trolls to get the dog back. She decided to tell each troll that she can fly with her skis and she can do that if all troll gives back her clothing. Once she is set and held her dog and told all trolls to push her and see her fly. All trolls pushed her together and she skied all way down safely and tricked all trolls once again. After that she never seen the trolls again.

The genre of Trouble with Trolls will be folklore. The moral of the story will be, "those who protect and save animals lead to the way of protecting and saving humanity". This book was inspired by the author's visit to the Scandinavian country of Norway. This book definitely shows cultural values of Scandinavian culture within the pictures inside the story. Mostly the details of clothing and nature that represents Norway. Reading this book always make me feel connected to it when my family's heritage is from Scandinavian. This book is good for sharing cultural experiences and stories of Norway.

One of Social Justices Elements applies greatly to this book will be, Self-love and Knowledge. This story is when some students whose family are part of Scandinavian can show other students what their culture looks like. Expose others with the knowledge of that certain culture and what kind of stories they tend to write & draw? The activities I would include based on this story is doing short skit of the story or introduce the culture of Scandinavian and their folklores.