It was Hamilton's raconteurship that got Merv Griffin, the talk-show host and producer, interested in developing the tale of the road trip in the seventies.
Potter elaborated its setting and storyline, and developed the tale more fully before publication.
At the same time, she began giving serious thought to developing the tale about Mrs. Tiggy-winkle and Lucie.
The mas̄navī enabled the poet to develop the thread of a tale through thousands of verses.
That allows little room for developing the kind of tale with which Steig has made his mark on children's literature, as the author and illustrator of books like "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" and "The Amazing Bone".
Cisneros develops this tale, which has also been found slightly modified in Aztec, Greek, and Spanish cultures, from the legend of La Llorona (Spanish for "weeping woman"), a ghost story found in Mexico and Texas.
Having explored the landscape of fairy tales in developing The Woodsman, Ortiz notes that much of the use of forest and woods in western culture dates back to Grimm's fairy tales as they were, "effectively talking about the Black Forest in Germany.
Developing the Skills You Need to Succeed: Tales From Association Postdocs, Part 1. 02 February 2001.
Developing the Skills You Need to Succeed: Tales From Association Postdocs, Part 2. 06 April 2001.
The tall tale, repeated often enough, develops the ring of truth.
