Five and six-year-olds at Gurney Pease Primary in Darlington are turning storyteller Doreen Dean's tale of The Dinosaur Week into colourful clay and plasticine models, collages and paintings.

Now, here is the serendipitous twist that turned Spectacle Island's tale from woe to winning: none of this could have happened without the $12 billion highway project known hereabouts as The Big Dig.

Julie Taymor's film turns Shakespeare's bloody tale into a fluid time-traveling fantasia of violence and revenge that has the look of a sophisticated video game.

I jested with him extremely about the figure he would make in Virginia; but I found he would do anything I desired, though he did not seem glad to have me undervalue his plantations, so I turned my tale.

Muppets' Wizard of Oz:Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the Muppets as they turn everyone's favorite classic tale into a musical, madcap adventure that shines brighter than Emerald City!

It also turned E. T. A. Hoffmann's great tale "The Sandman" into a chamber opera.

"If you had not had the wit and the will to turn the infant's tale from one course to another-" And at that reminder, Elena hastily brought out the tiny silver casket, in which resided the perfectly ordinary looking dried pea.

But Wharton deliberately turned Ethan's tale into a novelette rather than a full-length novel to create a stark effect in both the story and its telling.

Although forms of vaccination had been discovered thousands of years ago in Asia and Africa, Western Europeans didn't pick up on it until Edward Jenner turned an old wives' tale into the Stuff of Genius.

For example, she turns Melville's astonishing tale of a harpooner trapped in the sinking skull of a dead whale into a slight anecdote, finishing with a playful suggestion that the novel is "really about head size."