Week 4 Lab: Storybook Research

For my Lab this week, I decided to research my storybook project. I have lots of ideas but I am still in the preliminary stages of planning, so I thought now would be a good time to do some research into the topic.

I am pretty sure I want to do a modern retelling of the Canterbury Tales with new characters but I don't know what kind of trip I want them to be on. I thought a train might be a good idea since a plan would be too noisy for storytelling, so I looked up some pictures of trains. This helped me envision a setting and also gave me some destination ideas since the websites were for specific trains traveling to specific places.

Here are some pictures of train dining cars, perhaps where my storytellers will come together:

Train out of Washington DC wikimedia

Train in Austria wikimedia

And there were plenty of more in Australia, Canada, India, England, Italy, etc. I still haven't decided where my travelers will be headed or for what purpose yet but this gives me lots of ideas to explore. With that in mind, I began looking at extended train trips and found this site with plenty of options to look at: greatrail There were lots of Italian options, which are tempting since I have been there and could write about it easily but I will make a final choice later.

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Photo Credit: goodfreephotos Here is the link to my story project: Tales on a Train It is a modern retelling of the Canterbury Tales with new characters and a new setting.

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