Traditional fairy tales like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast are all good, delightful stories to read. But come to think of it, why is Cinderella so dependent on a ...

By Kyra Miles Once upon a time, babies and toddlers gathered at the George Latimer Central Library in St. Paul for story time ...

GANNA BOZHKO/GETTY IMAGES. 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 ...

These stories, which were initially rarely intended for children (yet featured them as central characters in easy-to-understand plots), ... Fairy Tales is at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until April 28, 2024.

Yet others love fairy tales for the apparently opposite reason: novelist A.S. Byatt praises the “untrue” nature of fairy tale, by which I take her to mean its obvious magic, sorcery, and ...

Once Upon a Time’ appears in many fairy tales and stories. The phrase has a long history and a practical narrative purpose.

"Fairy tales are thousands of years old," says scholar Jack David Zipes, ... recently ran a piece exploring our fraught relationship with what she calls "ur-stories" of the Grimms and others.

Latino colleagues from across NPR shared their family stories for Hispanic Heritage Month, exposing a rich array of experiences: loss, longing, contradiction and triumph.

England’s hotel at the Women’s European Championship looks like a castle that has jumped straight out of a book of fairy ...