When Cinderella Went to the Ball: Five Hundred Years of Fairy Tales

Toronto Public Library has a new exhibit, When Cinderella Went to the Ball: Five Hundred Years of Fairy Tales, until Dec. 12 at the library's Lillian H. Smith branch, near University of Toronto.

From the website:

This virtual exhibit presents a small selection of items taken from the Osborne Collection’s sixtieth anniversary exhibit, When Cinderella Went to the Ball: Five Hundred Years of Fairy Tales, held from September 12 to December 12, 2009. Celebrating one of children’s literature’s most enduringly popular genres, the exhibit progresses from a fifteenth-century Venetian wonder tale (Historia di Lionbruno, 1476), through “classic” stories and collections by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and others, to today’s spin-offs, spoofs and “post-modern” interpretations.

And, bless the TPL, they have also built a nice website featuring some of the art that will long outlast the exhibit and gives those of us from far away a small taste.

Here's an article with a little more about the exhibit, too: Toronto Library - 500 years of fairy tales.

Now I wish I was somewhere near Toronto, too...

And another treat from a previous exhibit of pop-up books: Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk.