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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

10 best books like The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Jack D. Zipes): The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, 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

The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales
AuthorJeanne Marie Beaumont
ISBN1586540270
Writers and readers have long been inspired by the haunting wisdom and sheer imaginative power to be found in the fairy tales of the immortal Brothers Grimm. The editors have collected more than a hundred poems inspired by Grimm tales and written by our finest living poets. A brilliant and informative...
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends
AuthorKatharine M. Briggs
ISBN0394502485
A book on the themes in northern European -- British, German, Scandinavian -- folklore, with some bits roving farther afield on some themes.

Each chapter has a theme -- passage of time in Fairy, slower or (less typically) faster -- the fairies' moral views (and double standards) on lying and...
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0312862210
I'm a big fan of Terri Windling, and make an effort to seek out her anthologies. Thus, I got this one. I'd heard rave reviews of it - people saying "This is the one that made a difference in my life!"
I was a bit quizzical about that, because for me, that was 'Bordertown.' And for me, it remains Bordertown,...
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
AuthorNina Auerbach
ISBN0226032043
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...
Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
AuthorValerie Paradiž
ISBN0465054919
Most people know the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, but very few know that behind the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales stood a network of sisters-and mothers, neighbors, and female friends. In this intimate history, Valerie Paradiz tells the real story of the greatest literary collaboration...
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
AuthorJoan Gould
ISBN0812975456
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
AuthorMaria Tatar
ISBN0691000883
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing...
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
AuthorCatherine Orenstein
ISBN0465041264
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...
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0374524874
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...
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0877735263
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...
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
AuthorSheldon Cashdan
ISBN0465008968
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN0385486812
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...
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
AuthorDiane Purkiss
ISBN0814766838
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.

The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People
AuthorThomas Keightley
ISBN0517263130
Finally finished it! Enjoyed it so much. A great collection of folklore from all over the world.

I will caution: not a book to read if you're looking for something light. I was sometimes frustrated by the lack of English in certain sections. Almost all of the Spain section I couldn't read because...
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
AuthorKathleen Ragan
ISBN0393320464
Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and...
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
AuthorAlison Lurie
ISBN0316246255
Read in one sitting and late into the night because it was SO MCUH FUN, although, yes, uneven, and difficult to follow in places if one hasn't read the original books. Children's literature (Lurie says) runs under the radar, and the authors of children's literature often possess the same attribute,...
Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia
AuthorCarol Rose
ISBN0393317927
In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various...
Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
AuthorCarl Lindahl
ISBN0195147723
Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious...
Folk and Fairy Tales
AuthorMartin Hallett
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...
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
AuthorLeonard S. Marcus
ISBN0395674077
An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture

What should children read? As the preeminent children’s literature authority, Leonard S....
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0874835917
Subtitled "Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood," this small book of essays was first my position papers for the EdD I never quite got. Originally published in hardcover by Philomel and then brought out a few years later in a trade paperback, this book of essays has become well...
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