[ book tip by Sasa Jazbec ] This picture book with its original illustrations that make each individual page especially distinctive is interesting because it breaks with the linearity of printed texts as we know them. Three famous fairytales are cleverly woven together so that each part provides the reader with a number of alternatives. Since each alternative takes the fairytale off in a direction all its own, many possibilities arise, which also makes the title One Thousand and One Stories completely justified. As soon as readers or listeners overcome their initial unease with the book and grasp the principle behind this form of reading, their actual adventure begins. The idea of being able to create your own fairytale out of known material as you read along is fascinating. This kind of reading is reminiscent of how we read hypertexts and confirms the theory that reading is an intense and (re)constructive process. A fact that is not so obvious when we read linearly on just one level.

[ book info ] Prap, Lila: 1001 Stories. (Book language: Slovenian) Kane/Miller Books Publ., 2006 . ISBN: 978-1929132928.