The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
10 best books like The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (Maria Tatar): Favorite Folktales from Around the World, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, The Classic Fairy Tales, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
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The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0393060810 |
A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.
In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374524874 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877735263 |
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and...
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0385486812 |
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0195202198 |
This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486216748 |
I grew up with a copy of Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. I loved that hardback edition of fairy tales. I read it and reread it and reread it. At that time, I had no idea that there were a whole set of color fairy tales to be had. But I had such fond memories of it that when I spied a modern edition of The Yellow Fairy...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0198605099 |
From its ancient roots in the oral tradition to the postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale has retained its powerful hold over the cultural imagination of Europe and North America. Now The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales provides the first authoritative reference source for this...
This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. An accessible section of critical...
In addressing "the way to write for children," Joan Aiken starts at the beginning. Is writing a children's book as simple as it looks? Do you want to write for children or about them? Do you want to write a picture book for young children, a book for new readers, or a chapter book for preteens? Why is Beatrix...
The Annotated Brothers Grimm
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0393058484 |
Maria Tatar's The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the powerful cultural legacy of the stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm —tales that have enchanted children and adults alike for generations. The volume includes over forty of the Grimms' most beloved stories, including:
Rapunzel...
