... Approaching Writing Skills through Fairy Tales Silvia Bruti University of Pisa, Italy Why Fairy Tales? When I was asked to choose a topic for a seminar for second ... one hand fairy tales are a well established, typical text, with distinctive thematic and formal features (Pisanty 1993: 27; Lavinio 1993: 15-21). However, despite their tipicality, fairy tales ... such themes one might ask a question: are fairy tales like this for children or for adults? Some associations in the U.S. have found some of the classical fairy tales too overtly sexual or even...