Fairy Tale Forest began in 1953 when Paul Woehle Sr., a German immigrant, started building the park with its now-iconic front facade and a few storybook-themed cottages. He drew inspiration from ...

News Fractured Fairy Tales Once upon a time, Storybook Land was Northern Virginia’s favorite ’50s-era fairy-tale world. Then the park closed and its nursery-rhyme characters died.

Famous fairy tales and folktales from around the world Fairy tale stories are part and parcel of childhood. Endlessly retellable (and spoofable—we’re looking at you, Shrek) and filled with ...

Fairy Tale Forest opened in 1957 after being built by German immigrant, Paul Woehle Sr. It was based on European fairy tales such as Mother Goose, Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, Peter Pumpkin ...

Humans have always had an emotional relationship with predators. We both revere and demonize them. We buy more than 100 million teddy bears annually for our children, while 50,000 real bears are ...

Classic fairy tales can be turned into horrifying films with dark twists, like in Deadtime Stories and Wishmaster. Grief, obsession, and vanity are explored in the deeply disturbing Tale of Tales ...

This week, the United Nations hosts the Mother of all Meetings—the Special Session on Children. No less than 71 heads of state, 70 other top government leaders, and a zillion members of 830 ...

From fairy tales to fun musicals, Sherlock Holmes to "Swan Lake," the Manship Theatre has announced a full slate of family ...

Fairy tales have a timeless appeal, and no matter how old we get, we never quite outgrow them. Maybe it's because they are so familiar to us, so reliable. We can trust their dependable narrative ...

Fairy tales come in all shapes and sizes. There's so much overlap between fairy tales from around the world that we have the Aarne-Thompson Uther Tale Type Index to help us keep track of each ...

For a show about timeless human fears and fantasies, Fairy Tales may be curiously timely. Fairy Tales is at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until April 28, 2024.