Today I am sharing a post on Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Victoria writer and daughter of Willliam Makepeace Thackeray. Here's an ex...

Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle is our illustrator for today's Women in Folklore Month post. From Wikipedia : Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle (1 Ma...

A review for a new ballet of The Little Mermaid has some interesting thoughts on fairy tale adaptations in general. The article is Taking a...

From The dark forest of childhood: Modern fairy tales return to their roots by Laurel Snyder for The Boston Globe: My own sense of what a f...

Hey y'all, I've pushed live the posts from the past several days that sat in draft mode because I was unable to do a final polish. ...

Okay, so "fairy tale" is overused by sports journalists in English speaking countries. This month is especially bad with the extr...

From Anne Frank told fairy tales to children in concentration camp, says survivor in new memoir by Rosemary Black at the Daily News: During...

I'm thinking of making Saturdays into "pretty picture" days on this blog since I am finding so many wonderful illustrations ge...

Kate Bernheimer first came to my attention during the heydey of SurLaLune's Discussion Boards, another boon of the early days of SurLaLu...

Most likely if you are at all familiar with P. L. Travers, you know her as the author of Mary Poppins. I'll admit that for once I much p...

I still remember the first time I read Donna Jo Napoli's The Magic Circle . I was dazzled by the impact of such a short novel and bemus...

From Our fantastic readers: how 200 of you volunteered by Lucy Tobin at The Guardian : Last year in Education Guardian Professor Sugata Mitr...