A widowed king with a daughter named Flora remarries a widowed queen with her own daughter named Troutina. Flora is beautiful and amiable, while Troutina is ugly and mean. When both daughters are of ...

Notable writers including Michael Cunningham and Joyce Carol Oates have revamped old fairy tales for a new collection called My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Guest host Lynn Neary speaks ...

IT is customary to speak of Andersen’s best known short stories as fairy tales; wonder-stories is in some respects a more exact description, but the name has hardly a native sound. Andersen himself ...

Almost two centuries before Grimm's Fairy Tales, there was a collection of 50 stories called the Pentamerone, or Tale of Tales, that first assembled the tales later reimagined by the Brothers Grimm as ...

This book about books is anchored in its story of love, loss, healing and growth. Adults will see the beauty in this tale from the first page. Children will revel in the illustrations and delight in ...