To understand why authors write new versions of fairy tales and introduce you to researching fairy tale scholarship and criticism; to focus on genre differences and constraints.

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

Down through the slow drip of centuries, certain fairy stories have remained with us, somehow uniquely untouched by the erosion of time. They’ve become a standard part of a child’s upbringing. Even ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Content warning: this article contains reference to racist depictions of First Nations people. Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and ...