One story I thought was interesting was How the Tortoise Got its Shell. I have to admit, I really intrigued to see where the story was headed because the I am not nearly creative enough to have thought of a story like that! I love that each of these story that explain how some sort of phenomenon "is the way it is" have such a creative background story. Each story starts off in a very far-fetched manor and you think you will never reach the moral of the story, and then sudden you do and it all makes sense!
Farmer Mybrow and the Fairies was another story that I enjoyed reading, although it had a much different feel from the other stories of the unit. I liked that the author included multiple scenarios in which the fairies helped Mybrow. I actually thought the fairies were going to turn out to be tricksters from the beginning of the story, but I soon realized they were quite the opposite. It was interesting that their helpfulness, though, turned out to be the conflict of the story. The only thing I wasn't the biggest fan of was the ending; there was no sort of closure or resolve to the conflict, so it left the reader a tad without knowing what the farmer did as a result of his wife's foolishness.
I really like that the main difference between the original story and your version is that your version has a happy ending. When I first started reading your story I thought it was going to be like the lorax. I thought that the farmer cutting down the forest would upset the fairies. I did like the story but I thought the fairies were a little too easy going.
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