Of course, fairy tales have been around for as long as we've had puberty, or storytelling, or dark, wolf ... MENU. Books. 11 Short Fairy Tale Retellings You Can Read Online Right Now. by Charlotte ...

If the Grimm brothers can be credited with the beginning of fairy-tale sanitation, there's another man who gets credit for carrying their standard into the 20th century: Walt Disney.

Imagine if the world remembered the magic, power and purpose of black women. In a mere 12-minute film, Thistles and Thorns (A Fairytale for Black Girls) brings that wonderment of the African ...

Holiday Short Story Contest: 'Fairy Tales' Second place, younger students. Annie Adams. Lucy, May and Nevi were all 12-year old girls. They were also best friends.

Kristen Roupenian reviews “White Cat, Black Dog,” a new book of short stories by Kelly Link, whose last collection was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

Folklorists define the fairy tale as a story of magic or a "wonder tale", a description with which Marina Warner agrees. Fairies, elves and the like can feature but often don't make an appearance.

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together Mary Ann Hoberman. Megan Tingley Books, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-316-14611-1 ...

Fairy-tale plots and characters, in fact, feature the tropes that can be found in just about every story we tell. In “Once Upon a Time,” Marina Warner shows that few things in human experience ...

In its sparseness, astonishments, and cyclical twists, the fairy tale has something in common with the 20th-century European absurd, which follows funny, appalling patterns of repetition.

In Tales Of The Night, French animation master Michael Ocelot returns to the same format as his 2000 film Princes And Princesses (Princes Et Princesses), itself a compilation of short fairy tales ...