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If you're looking for something new to read with your kids, these modern fairy tales are worth adding to your home library.
It’s not easy being the mom or dad of a fairy-tale character. As a recent study in the British Medical Journal concluded, “risk of parental death was five times higher in children’s animated ...
Who doesn’t love a fairy tale movie? Full of magic, enchantments, and mythical beings like wizards, goblins, elves, and fairies, these folk tales are loved by all. Although these fictional ...
Reading fairy tales can be essential to building the imagination of young readers. Folk tales, meanwhile, can help illuminate life lessons and teach children about traditions held by people all ...
From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the popular fairy tales and folktales that shape our happily ever afters.
When we were kids, "fairy tales" were the cutesy purview of Disney movies and children's books. Princesses sang to animals and princes gallivanted around with their privilege wildly unchecked ...
Psychologists know that fairy tales provide many functions for children, whose early inner emotional worlds are filled with ideas of magic, of dream-like wishes, as well as anxieties over issues ...
This wonderful book comprises a dozen classic literary fairy tales, all but one ornamented by the midcentury illustrations of Alice and Martin Provensen.
In their latest book CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt retell fairy and folk tales with Black children as the main characters.
"Fairy tales are magical. They may provide a window to another world, a chance to look beyond the mundane," writes one blogger, who concludes that, "Fairy tales can make good children stories." ...
Children from religious backgrounds are more likely to believe that the heroes in fairy tales are real, a new study published in July’s Cognitive Science discovered. When asked to distinguish… ...