Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”: The Americanization of a German Fairy Tale
In Washington Irving’s well-known tale “Rip Van Winkle,” the lazy, good-natured Van Winkle follows a strange gentleman into the woods, is...
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Cramer & Del George
Sep 11, 20192 min
Latin American Fairy Tales: Online Starting Points
Those searching the Internet for Latin American fairy tales in English will need more than the sites recommended in our last post:...
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Cramer & Del George
Sep 7, 20192 min
International Fairy Tales Online
For readers who want to find fairy tales beyond those made famous by the Grimm Brothers, Disney, and other Western collectors and...
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Aug 28, 20191 min
Joseph Jacobs and the Fairy Tales of "Merrie England"
In his preface to English Fairy Tales, folklorist and scholar Joseph Jacobs writes, “Who says that English folk have no fairy tales of...
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Cramer & Del George
Oct 11, 20181 min
"Alexa, Open My Fairy Tale"
In an enterprise once thought to be uniquely human, artificial intelligence (AI) is now telling stories that remind us of tales as old as...
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Cramer & Del George
Sep 13, 20181 min
A.S. Byatt Wins HCA Literature Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, established in 2010, recognizes authors who are inspired by the influential Danish author...
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Jul 18, 20181 min
Disneyland's 63rd Anniversary: Walt's Original Plans for the Park
When Walt Disney dreamed of Disneyland, he envisioned the familiar Tomorrowland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Adventureland, as well as...
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Jun 19, 20181 min
Snow White's SALMON CROQUETTES
Vintage recipe from the Nebraska Power Company featuring Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As Happy states, "Snow White's SALMON...
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Jun 15, 20181 min
One Small Step: a film with big dreams
Counting former Disney animators among its founders, TAIKO studios is a film studio based in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China. Their first...
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Cramer & Del George
Jun 8, 20181 min
Divorce Fairy Tale for Kids
When my daughter was young and beginning to experience joint custody, I (Dana Del George) struggled to explain divorce to her. She and I...
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Cramer & Del George
May 31, 20181 min
The Witch's House of Beverly Hills
"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...
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Cramer & Del George
May 24, 20181 min
SurLaLune: Our favorite online fairy tale collection
Librarian and researcher Heidi Anne Heiner began her SurLaLune Fairy Tales project when she was a graduate student at the University of...
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Cramer & Del George
May 17, 20181 min
#FolkloreThursday: Public folklore in action
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...
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May 8, 20181 min
John Bauer: Swedish Fairy Tale Illustrator
When I (Cramer) was an undergraduate, I was an exchange student at Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola in Jönköping, Sweden, the hometown of...
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Cramer & Del George
May 3, 20181 min
Future Animator from SMC Illustrates "Little Red Riding Hood"
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...
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Cramer & Del George
Apr 24, 20181 min
Fairy Tales Inspire Architects
Here are the winners of the fifth annual Fairy Tales Architecture Competition, which is the largest architecture competition in the...
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Cramer & Del George
Apr 19, 20181 min
Two Towns Vie for Fairytale Capital of the World
The Brothers Grimm hailed from Kassel, Germany, and Hans Christian Andersen's hometown was Odense, Denmark. Both towns claim to be the...
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Cramer & Del George
Apr 17, 20181 min
The Science of Fairy Tales
Science writer Ed Yong, in a piece for The Atlantic, explains how "[u]sing techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced...
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Cramer & Del George
Apr 6, 20181 min
Maria Tatar, Queen of Fairy Tale Studies
In December of 2013, we attended Maria Tatar's lecture at the Getty Museum. Her topic was "Beauties Sleeping and Beauties Awake: Fairy...
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