One Fairy Story too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales by John M. Ellis is good for anyone who's interested in fairy tale history...

Today is my birthday! On my 16th birthday, I watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty because the whole thing takes place on her 16th birthday....

One of my favorite blogs ever is (Inside A Black Apple) by the lovely Emily Martin. She's an artist with a fairy tale aesthetic. This w...

In 1874, Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky saw an exhibit in honor of a friend and artist, Viktor Hartmann. Mussorgsky was so moved by the ...

How we percieve the Beast affects not only how we read Beauty and the Beast, but many other fairy tales that involve animals as well-Little ...

Did you know there's a Cinderella reference in the Bible? Well...not exactly. Psalm 113:7-8: "He raises the poor from the dust and...

So we know that Beaument's Beauty and the Beast was basically a summary of Madame de Villeneuve's story of the same title from 1740...

Disney can be quite controversial. Some people love Disney and everything about Disney-others despise it/him. Since Disney has made many man...

Just finished reading Brothers and Beasts: an Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales , edited by Kate Bernheimer. It's impossible to summarize ...

I always loved the song "Pink Elephants," but the first time I watched Dumbo as an adult I was kind of shocked that the whole thin...