WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD FAIRY TALE? FAIRY TALES CONTINUE TO HAVE...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  January 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ......became more sophisticated and lost their need for fairy tales. Or did they? Today's children may need the magic of fairy tales even more than their parents did, says Bette Bosma, author of Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends and Myths: Using Folk Literature...

Fairy Tales and Foreign Languages: Ever the Twain Shall Meet

Foreign Language Annals;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Fairy tales are certainly not new to foreign language...there is a resurgence of interest in fairy tales and a rebirth of their use in the...origin and development of European fairy tales, while also providing them with necessary...

PREFACE TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON FAIRY TALES, PRINTED TEXTS, AND ORAL...

Marvels & Tales;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......showcases contemporary explorations of fairy tales' origins and transmission, introduces...illuminate the origins and transmission of fairy tales. The traditional history provided for fairy tales largely originated from successive forewords...

Innocent Initiations: Female Agency in Eroticized Fairy Tales

Marvels & Tales;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......differences, to the study of eroticized fairy tales: there exists a wealth of scholarship on fairy tales, but only some of it deals with explicit...article, I define and explore eroticized fairy tales in relation to classic and literary...

Fairy tales continue to have value for children, experts say.(Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 13, 1996 ;     700+ words ......more sophisticated and lost their need for fairy tales. Or did they? Today's children may need the magic of fairy tales even more than their parents did, says Bette Bosma, author of ``Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends and Myths: Using Folk Literature...

FAIRY TALES TEACH WORTHWHILE LESSONS

Evansville Courier & Press;  February 3, 2004 ;     576 words ...Fairy tales will spark more winters of discontent than just...have to say it was a toss-up between discipline and fairy tales, with nutrition coming in a close second. Why do fairy tales draw such a crowd of mad faces? Because fairy tales...

Beauty's more than skin-deep in fairy tales

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- Fairy tales offer children a fantasy world of magic, romance and adventure...Grauerholz and Baker-Sperry examined 168 Brothers Grimm fairy tales to study how fairy tales deal with beauty in "The Pervasiveness and Persistence...

THE FEMINIST MOTHER GOOSE IN ``FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE,'' MARINA...

The Virginian Pilot;  January 7, 1996 ;     621 words ......SCHARPER FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers MARINA WARNER Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 463 pp. $35. Fairy tales evoke our deepest feelings of loss and...book, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, adds a feminist perspective...

Experts Say Fairy Tales Not So Happy Ever After.

AScribe Law News Service;  November 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Ind., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fairy tales about pretty princesses winning Prince...study how beauty is written about in fairy tales and whether stories with beautiful princesses...be confusing for today's young women. Fairy tales, which are still read by millions of...

France's First Fairy Tales: The Restoration and Rise Narratives of Les...

Marvels & Tales;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...This article explores French fairy tales in the context of print and publishing...Piacevoli notti with its interspersed fairy tales. For one or more of their tales, authors...11-27). In my writing I distinguish fairy tales from folktales, which treat the often...

Why fairy tales aren't just for kids.(Features)

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  December 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: BY LORNE JACKSON FAIRY tales. Just for kids, right? Better than...perhaps not. The truth is that fairy tales aren't just for little 'uns. They...special limited-edition volume of fairy tales that she had written for charity...

Fairy tales are lessons in life.

Knight Ridder/Tribune;  October 11, 2005 ;     546 words ...Byline: Lori Borgman Fairy tales are under the microscope. The child...line of thinking that now considers fairy tales and folklore potentially harmful...add up. But we have a problem with fairy tales? I think not. Or, in the words of...

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

Voices;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the Fairy Tale The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford...the people who have created literary fairy tales and other artistic works, such as authors...the focus of the work is on literary fairy tales, as distinguished from oral wonder tales...

Fairy Tales Uncensored.

Odessa American (Odessa, TX);  September 22, 2006 ;     372 words ...Byline: Elizabeth York Sep. 22--Fairy tales are known by many to end in happily...the not-so-perfect parts of classic fairy tales will be told in the Permian Playhouse...families to it, but don't come expecting fairy tales as you remember (them). You can expect...

Grimms' Fairy Tales - for just pounds 3!(News)

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  November 11, 2004 ;     218 words ......chance to own a copy of Grimms' charming Fairy Tales - for just pounds 3. This timeless children...years they began to collect folk and fairy tales, many of which had never been published...responsible for bringing such classic fairy tales as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, ...