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.

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 ...

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 ...

‘Telling tales’: Communicating UK energy research through fairy tale characters. Energy Research & Social Science, 2023; 101: 103100 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103100 ...

But if I use fairy tales, they get it.” And fairy tales reassure us. “They point to the possibility of survival and rescue,” Tatar says. In lots of young adult fiction, children die.

Once upon a time, a Farmville native wrote a play for children to perform at the local community theater. Many years later, ...

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.

Grauerholz discusses what parents should be aware of when their children read fairy tales. (43 seconds) November 11, 2003 Experts say fairy tales not so happy ever after WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Fairy ...

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 ...