Oscar Wilde and the Literary Fairy Tale
"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...
Librarian and researcher Heidi Anne Heiner began her SurLaLune Fairy Tales project when she was a graduate student at the University of...
Many fairy tales were once a part of oral tradition and belong to the broader category of folklore. In the 21st century, the Internet has...
When I (Cramer) was an undergraduate, I was an exchange student at Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola in Jönköping, Sweden, the hometown of...
Jacq Kirkman took English 61: Introduction to the Fairy Tale in 2017, and she is a story artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles. See...
Here are the winners of the fifth annual Fairy Tales Architecture Competition, which is the largest architecture competition in the...
The Brothers Grimm hailed from Kassel, Germany, and Hans Christian Andersen's hometown was Odense, Denmark. Both towns claim to be the...
Science writer Ed Yong, in a piece for The Atlantic, explains how "[u]sing techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced...
In December of 2013, we attended Maria Tatar's lecture at the Getty Museum. Her topic was "Beauties Sleeping and Beauties Awake: Fairy...