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Watch the popular children's moral story 'The Goose Girl and Magic Pot'. The story uses the false bride plot with a good-hearted princess being seized by her maid and turned into a common goose girl.
In the days of “Once upon a time. . .” multiculturalism was as distant a concept as flying to the moon. Tales of princesses and frogs, of giants and enchanted castles permeated the time… ...
THE MAGIC FISH By Trung Le Nguyen. THE LITTLE MERMAID By Jerry Pinkney. Like most American children, I grew up reading fairy tales. As a person of color, I accepted that the characters in the ...
A UChicago scholar of Renaissance and contemporary culture and early-modern Italian literature, Maggi believes fairy tales have lost their magic. “Exhausted,” is how he describes it. The glass ...