High fantasy movies are epic stories set in fictional, imaginative worlds and generally include several fictional beings.

Andersen spent most of his adult life in hotels, rented lodgings, or the palatial homes of loyal friends, many of whom set ...

The Gist: A critical and box office bomb, this computer-animated film feels a bit like a warmed-over Shrek, combining the Cinderella story with elements from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian ...

Today is International Children’s Book Day – chosen to coincide with Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday – and we’re looking back at the author’s influence and the significance of ...

Silent footage from the Hans Christian Andersen's story of a tiny girl who encounters many unusual experiences before she finds the home where she really belongs. Thumbelina is taken to live among ...

(See: Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the Grimm Brothers’ Cinderella, among countless others.) That veneer of blissful innocence also applies to fashion. Wearing any garment ...

People often forget the darkness in fairy tales. In the Brothers Grimm’s Cinderella, the stepsisters cut off their toes to try to fit into the glass slipper. In Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little ...

By Sabrina Orah Mark Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong. By Jennifer Howard Igiaba Scego, an author born in Rome to Somali parents, recommends books that ...

While everyone is familiar with the common Cinderella story, the Hans Christian Andersen Theater group has a new, modern way of presenting this favorite story. This adaptation of Rogers & ...