The book is broken down into three categories: Classic fairy tales, African and African American ... Asha wears an extravagant blue gown with purple tulle shooting from the bottom as Jamal ...

When Sabrina Orah Mark began to delve into the world of fairy tales, it was Geppetto—who ... and recalls how in the book of Exodus, the first set of Ten Commandments—i.e., tablets—were ...

When she was about 15, she read a perfect book. “I stayed home from school ... She was this way in every moment of our conversation, a bird on a branch, prepared for flight.

As Zipes persuasively argues, the dozen treasures, some of which he just happened upon in libraries, book shops, nooks, and crannies, in his lifelong pursuit of political fairy tales he believes ...

“Fairy tales migrate into book and go from a multi-generational audience to children over time,” she said, “These are stories that have moved across the generations.” She described the ...

In fairy tales, magic often has humorous, complicated or unforeseen consequences. Heroes and heroines are done and undone by the gap between a spell’s intent and its effects: Characters are ...

The girl was very polite and gave her some. The woman revealed herself as a fairy who was there to test to see how far the girl’s manners and civility would go, and gave her the gift that whenever she ...