I found a copy of " The Turnip Princess " in a local library! This is the collection of Schonwerth tales translated by Maria Tatar...

It's getting to be that time of year when we're making gift lists for ourselves and others! For those of us who love fairy tales it ...

It's been a crazy week around here...haven't had time for researching new posts, but now that the blog has 5 years of archives, even...

I found this article,  Wikispaces: Louis XIV's Use of Fashion to Control and Express Power , and it has a great section on the importanc...

Barbara C. Freeman (1906-1999) was an English writer and artist who illustrated several fairy tale book collections. Her illustrations are ...

This post would have been perfect right around Halloween. But here in the Northern Hemisphere, our days are still getting gradually darker a...

The famous Red Riding Hood we are all familiar with was originally, in Perrault's story, a chaperon, or French headgear. The chaperon ha...

Here's an interesting "Frog Prince" tale from Korea, this one does not tell the story from the perspective of the bride. We al...