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

Cramer & Del George
Oct 3, 20192 min read
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The Undeniable Charm of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories
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...
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Oct 3, 20192 min read
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Scheherazade Lately
Long-lasting and wide-ranging is the fame of Scheherazade, the legendary Arabian storyteller. Scheherazade’s 1001 cliffhangers saved her...

Cramer & Del George
Sep 25, 20192 min read
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Louisa May Alcott: a Spinner of Fairy Tales
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) loved to spin fairy tales. The prolific, 19th-century writer is perhaps best known for writing the timeless...
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Sep 21, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 12, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 11, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 7, 20192 min read
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Oscar Wilde and the Literary Fairy Tale
"The Happy Prince"
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Sep 5, 20192 min read
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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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Aug 28, 20191 min read
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"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...

Cramer & Del George
Oct 11, 20181 min read
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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...

Cramer & Del George
Sep 13, 20181 min read
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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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Jul 18, 20181 min read
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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 19, 20181 min read
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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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Jun 15, 20181 min read
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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...

Cramer & Del George
Jun 8, 20181 min read
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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...

Cramer & Del George
May 31, 20181 min read
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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...

Cramer & Del George
May 24, 20181 min read
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#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...

Cramer & Del George
May 17, 20181 min read
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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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May 8, 20181 min read
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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...

Cramer & Del George
May 3, 20181 min read
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