There are many ways to approach a children's book. Often, these books retell folk tales in familiar, 21st century language -- and why not? These tried and tested stories have an air of legitimacy and ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

From Spirited Away to Pan's Labyrinth, these are the best fantasy movies that prove fairy tales will remain forever relevant, ...

"Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," and "Jack and the Beanstalk" are three stories likely told to you or read to you while you were growing up. They are all fairy tales, a genre of literature and ...

These 15+ fairy tales kids should know are delightful reads and promote creativity, vocabulary, problem-solving, and cultural literacy.

“Come children and listen,” intones the unseen narrator at the beginning of Gretel and Hansel, “to a story that will make you safe.” The question often asked about Brothers Grimm folk tales such as ...

The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...

When Dario Fo won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1997, it was a bit of a shock in many quarters. The Italian writer considers himself a jester, and his plays are cheerfully but powerfully anarchic.

With the workshop leader, the writer and performer Gcina Mhlophe, focusing their instincts, the children devise a folk tale about a girl named Liyana who sets off, with a friendly bull, to rescue her ...

Elizabeth Lim, the author of “Six Crimson Cranes,” recommends some of her favorite retellings of classic fairy tales. By Elizabeth Lim Fairy tales made me fall in love with reading. When I was a kid, ...