This dissertation discusses that if traditional fairy tales parodies have any
educational effect of reading on children. For this study, elementary school lower
grade to upper grade students were experimented who could understand the strategy
of parody fairy tales. Also, the study proceeded based upon a premise that those
subjectedchildren fully understand the original versions of parody fairy tales.
The educational effect on children is divided and explained in three main parts,
cognitive domain, affective domain, and imaginative domain, to approach to the study
detailed and closely. However, the effect which encompasses all three domains also is
generally surveyed simultaneously. In cognitive domain, the study analysis how
interaction between traditional fairy tales parodies and their original works influence
children’s understanding of literary structure and critical awareness on the real lives.
Secondly, the study discusses how parody stories’ amusements provide literary
pleasures and challenges to established values and followed moral confliction of the
stories influence on the children in the affective domain. Lastly, the imaginative
domain points out that parody stories’ new ways of thinking and creative story
structures stimulate children’s imaginations, which eventually extend to even more
creative activities in the fields.
As discussed, traditional fairy tales parodies, with interactions between their
originals, vitalize children’s energetic thinking and provide chances to have rich
imaginations. Also, having literary pleasure cannot be missed.