Dreams do come true even if you have to wait a very long time. Julie's grandmother came over on Ellis Island while her friend Cordelia Grimm (great, great granddaughter of one of the Brothers Grimm) was sent back home. Cordelia's dream would come true many years later because of a fairy tale she left with her friend so many years ago that was published by a newspaper in Julie's hometown.
The fairy tale is about Katrianna and her special doll Princess Momalina being reunited after having to flee and be separated because of war. The moral of the story is that dreams do come true even if you have to wait a very long time.
"The response Erie Times-News In Education received when we published the serial story, Julie & The Lost Fairy Tale on our NIE Extra-Extra! Read All About It! literacy page was phenomenal. The story was an excellent choice to help us reach our goal of bridging the gap between the classroom and the real world. It helped us foster communication with educators, students and their families and the entire community." Anna McCartney Erie Times-News Newspaper in Education and Literacy Projects Coordinator
This story was printed in Newspapers In Education nationwide and used in classrooms to support immigration studies. But most of all the story united me with so many things that was lost for me, my grandmother, my hopes and dreams and most of all the writer in me. You see... the writer is the first reader... and the first on to benefit from this kind of therapy.
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