Many hundreds of years ago, there was a woodcutter and his wife, and one day the woman went by the river to wash clothes while her husband collected wood. She saw a peach floating down the water and ...

There was once a young white fox named Fukuyémon, who, when he reached a fitting age, shaved his forelock and began thinking of taking a bride. His father gave him his inheritance and retired, and the ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

From classic fairy tales from authors such as The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson to new and original fairy tale books, you can introduce gentle versions of the stories to young children in ...

Henry Justice Ford, illustration of Andrew Lang, The Book of Romance (1902), one of the many books of fairytales Lang and his wife published (image via Wikimedia Commons) Specters of the Marvelous ...

The Fisherman and His Wife (1882) by Alexander Zick (1845–1907) from Grimms' Fairy Tales, published by Gebruder Reichenbach Source: Gebruder Reichenbach/Public Domain Fairy tales have enchanted us for ...