Fairy Tales Explored

In June 2021, an enchanting new museum centered on Hans Christian Andersen opened in his hometown of Odense, Denmark. The museum—called...

Today we share a post by a student in our Spring 2020 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Meagan Harmon and I’m currently a...

In recognition of “every child’s right to great stories,” the Swedish government created the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award to honor a...

The troubles and distractions of 2020 kept us from a timely announcement of the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism...

Today, we share a post by a student in our Fall 2020 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Evelyn Alva Hidalgo. I have a B.A....

Fairy-tale writer and scholar Kate Bernheimer always inspires. She wrote the modern fairy tale collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a...

In 1997, Brandy starred as Cinderella in a remake of the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical co-produced by Whitney Houston, who also...

Today, we share a response by author and computer engineer Derek T. Jones to a selection of Max Lüthi's work that is included in Maria...

Every other year, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) honors an author and an illustrator with the Hans Christian...

In “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear,” writer Maria...

In August, 1896, a literary fairy tale called “The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure” by Charles Douglass appeared In The Home Monthly...

As Marilyn Berg Callander writes in Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, “Cather’s imaginings were shaped by myth: her childhood reading was...

In 2016, folklorists and fairy tale scholars Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman created an online community for “magic-seekers and...

Sister-brother team, author Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer began collaborating in 2011 on a series for Places Journal...

To lengthen our list of Latin American fairy tales, I (Dana) considered including the Tradiciones peruanas (Peruvian Traditions) of...

L. Frank Baum’s literary imagination is firmly woven into the American fabric. He will be forever remembered for his story The Wonderful...

In October of 2019, we went to Denmark to see where Hans Christian Andersen lived. We visited Odense, where he grew up, and Copenhagen,...

On October 11, 2019, we toured the wonderful GRIMMWELT (Grimm World) Museum in Kassel, Germany. Kassel is considered the capital of the...

In October, 2019, we drove the German Fairy Tale Route and captured some of the highlights and our impressions along the way.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are famous for putting into writing tales from the oral tradition, which were often told to them by women. Marie...