Illustrations by A. Alexeieff for Russian Fairy Tales, 1945. More of his images can be seen here . Here you can read a Russian version of H...

In a certain kingdom lived a tsar with three sons. The tsar dreamed that beyong the thrice ninth land, in the thirtieth kingdom, was a beaut...

Anne Anderson On the Surlalune Annotate Twelve Dancing Princesses page, you can read the Grimms' notes from the versions they heard and ...

Two Wolves A Cherokee Legend An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the ...

Liadov-"The Enchanted Lake-Fairy Tale Picture", Opus 62, From this site : "The composer referred to The Enchanted Lake (1908)...

In my library there are several books on the brothers Grimm but none exclusively on the history of the Arabian Nights. The following info...

Definitely like Grimm better than Once Upon a Time. The trailer gives you a good feel for the first episode-but especially in light of my p...

I found a couple of faerie-related books at a library book sale I had never heard of before. The first was Photographing Fairies by Steve Sz...

It's more difficult to find online information on fairy tale illustrators than authors. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) is one of the most well...

There's only two episodes of Once Upon a Time up so far but I'm not too into it. The premise itself could be really interesting: reg...