Many of her books focus on women’s roles in fiction, from her heroine’s journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey to books like Superheroines and the Epic Journey and Women in Game of Thrones. She’s the author of over 80 books on pop culture, including Hunting for Meaning in The Mandalorian Inside the Captain Marvel Film and Who Tells Your Story? History, Pop Culture, and Hidden Meanings in the Musical Phenomenon Hamilton. Valerie Estelle Frankel has won a Dream Realm Award, an Indie Excellence Award, and a USA Book News National Best Book Award for her Henry Potty parodies. And with 80 big adult nonfictions out on pop culture, I’m always writing more of those. And I’m hoping for a sequel to the Chelm book, this one another chapter book with a science fiction story for each holiday. I’m busy writing and editing an entire series of nonfiction exploring Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Both stories also tried to bring in social justice and love, so the little guys win in the end.
And the Passover one had a much simpler treasure hunt story, where the Chelmites realize they need matzah holes. It started with the concept of “What if the Chelmites believed they were their Purim costumes?” and incorporated lots of stuff I see, like all the girls dressing as Esther. Well, Purim’s my favorite holiday, and I thought that story had a nice originality and complexity. Amelia Bedelia has the same humor, and that’s how I describe this book to those who are unfamiliar.ĭo you have a favorite story in the collection? When the Chelmites carry someone around so he won’t leave footprints on the ground or decree that water will be known as milk so there’s enough milk to go around, kids get why that’s so ridiculous. What do you think makes Chelm stories timeless for young readers? There my big question was “Okay, what hasn’t been done yet?” Though I remember I struggled a little with Hannukah because so many angles on Chelm Hannukah stories had already been written. Chelm stories have an easy silly supposition–silly solution pattern to follow. Only after did I write them down and think about publication.
I just started my storytelling and amused myself and the kids. What interesting or fun fact did you learn in the process of creating this book? Any challenges? As a Hebrew school teacher and parody writer, I was well up on the holidays and the silliness that might happen. Later when this was going to be published, my aunt who studies our shtetl culture gave me some notes about food, environment, and so on. Well, I started with the obvious-bingeing the stories I’d been telling on the playground since childhood to get into the mood. How much research did you need to do to keep your stories consistent with traditional Chelm stories?
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