While there are so many strange holidays in the world, February 26th is one of my favorites: Tell a Fairy Tale Day! While it might be a little bit made up of a ...

Jason Treat, NGM STAFF. art: SAM FALCONER. Sources: Sara Graça da Silva, Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT), New University of Lisbon, Portugal; Jamie Tehrani, Durham ...

I, among many others, have a deep love for fairytales. They were the earliest stories I can recall my parents reading to me. Many know the classics through their Disney counterparts, but I had a ...

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them. By Margot Harrison Margot Harrison is the author of “The Midnight Club.” ...

Vanishing Daughters, written in the wake of her father’s death, is a novel about living through grief. For Chicago novelist ...

was one of the early French fairy tale authors and actually popularized the term fairy tales (contes de fées in French). She published most of her fairy tales in 1697 and 1698. The 1690s, in ...

Fairy stories often start with the words 'Once upon a time'. Many include a battle between good and evil and usually end with the characters living 'happily ever after'. Fairy stories are ...

Most variants of this ATU type come from the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Les Fées" or "The Fairies," but the general story comes from a widespread traditional folktale popular in Europe and ...