as children, we encounter the concepts of good versus evil and the assurance that good will always prevail. But when I was a child I never read a fairy tale (or any book for that matter ...

In a surprise announcement and pairing, HarperCollins has announced the September publication of 'Hansel and Gretel', a ...

The book was initiated by the Maurice Sendak Foundation. King, author of “The Shining,” “Carrie” and other horror classics, ...

We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children ... some of the most beautiful and reverberant literary fairy tales in the world, about loss, love and longing.

Ecological themes are deftly woven into The Last Wild Cat, which intersects with Maori myth and the ethics of animal rights. In its respectable villain, Professor Smoult, it challenges ideas of ...

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 ...

Most of the fairy tales we know are traditional stories ... of the park after only the first story in this book. Wicked wives, resourceful children, evil parents and murderers all play their ...

Thought fairy tales were all pampered ... century - so here are the darkest fairy tales from the bookshelf revealed. “From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, do ...

IN designing the plan of this book the author seems to have thought ... and stories for separate occasions. The Rain-children. A Fairy-tale in Physics. By T. H. Orpen. With seven illustrations ...