Folk tales, fables and fairy tales ... do you know the difference? Fairview/Miss Jewell Elementary first graders in teachers Jamie King’s and Brandy Oliveras’ class are reading fairy tales, fables & ...

More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. In a used bookshop some years ago, I chanced upon a small volume called “Irish Fairy ...

Children across time and boundaries have grown up listening to or reading stories of fairies, witches, and the wishful child protagonist. We as modern-day readers know these tales as fairy tales, ...

Fairy-tale scholars explore the nuanced history of the genre Long long ago, villagers and nursemaids spun stories, handing them down from generation to generation. Then collectors like the Brothers ...

Emilio Gabriel Lapitan is a writer and aspiring author. A lover of stories of any kind, he is passionate about video games, TV, movies, theatre, comic books and cats. Fairy tales and myths have ...

Quick question: How many fairy tales can you name? If you haven't read Hans Christian Andersen or Andrew Lang in a while, you should definitely commit to reading some of their archetypal tales soon.

Long long ago, villagers and nursemaids spun stories, handing them down from generation to generation. Then collectors like the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault came along, jotted them down, and ...