Fairy Tales Explored

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...

Shortly before he received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, Portuguese author José Saramago published a fairy tale called The Tale of...

In the story “How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country” by American poet and writer Carl Sandburg, the main character Gimme the...

Long-lasting and wide-ranging is the fame of Scheherazade, the legendary Arabian storyteller. Scheherazade’s 1001 cliffhangers saved her...

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) loved to spin fairy tales. The prolific, 19th-century writer is perhaps best known for writing the timeless...

In Washington Irving’s well-known tale “Rip Van Winkle,” the lazy, good-natured Van Winkle follows a strange gentleman into the woods, is...

Those searching the Internet for Latin American fairy tales in English will need more than the sites recommended in our last post:...

For readers who want to find fairy tales beyond those made famous by the Grimm Brothers, Disney, and other Western collectors and...

"The Happy Prince"

In his preface to English Fairy Tales, folklorist and scholar Joseph Jacobs writes, “Who says that English folk have no fairy tales of...

In an enterprise once thought to be uniquely human, artificial intelligence (AI) is now telling stories that remind us of tales as old as...

The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, established in 2010, recognizes authors who are inspired by the influential Danish author...

When Walt Disney dreamed of Disneyland, he envisioned the familiar Tomorrowland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Adventureland, as well as...

Vintage recipe from the Nebraska Power Company featuring Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As Happy states, "Snow White's SALMON...

Counting former Disney animators among its founders, TAIKO studios is a film studio based in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China. Their first...

When my daughter was young and beginning to experience joint custody, I (Dana Del George) struggled to explain divorce to her. She and I...

"The Witch’s House is a Mecca on Halloween—I knew that when I bought the house," says Michael J. Libow, owner of an iconic home "built...