If you're looking for something new to read with your kids, these modern fairy tales are worth adding to your home library.

The imagined worlds of fairy tales offer not only entertainment for children but also reflections on contemporary times. Polish writers such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Bolesław Prus, and ...

The books in this series are written by contemporary children's authors and are based on classic fables and folk and fairy tales. The series is designed to encourage children to read and develop 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 ...

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 ...

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

The secret for Mark and Jennifer McQuade’s happily ever after may be working together on a big Broadway musical production.

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 ...

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