Happy Tell a Fairy Tale Day!! No, I’m not kidding -it’s a thing. Here’s proof. If the internet says it, it must be true, right? In any case, I’m a firm supporter of…well, any reason to curl up with a good book. And fairy tales are some of my favorites. I love the endless possibilities (talking […]

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Once upon a time, fairy tales were stories intended for adults. They do not necessarily have the happy endings Disney has led us to believe. In those stories, animals talked, faeries and forest spirits lived, and ordinary objects had inexplicable capabilities.

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"The Blue Book of Fairy Tales" illustrated by Gordon Laite (1959). Featured in My Retro Reads: A blog celebrating the beauty of vintage children's books.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were stories intended for adults. They do not necessarily have the happy endings Disney has led us to believe. In those stories, animals talked, faeries and forest spirits lived, and ordinary objects had inexplicable capabilities.

“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”

A collection of eleven fairy tales

Disney is known for bringing popular fairy tales and stories to life, but what's interesting is that they often changed parts of those original stories. We decided to look at 11 popular fairy tales and old stories to compare with the Disney films. How many of these do you know?

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Fairy Magic by Henry C. Pitz

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Charles Robinson - An Art Gallery of complete Illustrations from the First Edition of the book The Big Book of Fairy Tales, published in 1911.

Thirty-eight of the ever-popular fairy tales

Cinderella is an autumn tale. Don’t believe me? Pumpkins. Okay, occasionally it’s a winter tale and the ball is actually a yule ball. Cinderella comes in decked in flowers which makes t…

A collection of sixty-six Old English fairy tales, fables, romances, poems, and nursery rhymes

A collection of tales taken from German folklore and immortalized by the brothers Grimm

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A collection of forty-eight Danish folktales originally compiled by Svend Grundtvig, E.T. Kristensen, Ingvor Bondesen, and L. Budde

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To This Brook Ophelia Came. Arthur Rackham. From Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, 1909. “To this brook she came one day when she was unwatched, with garlands she had been making, mixed...

The first book I remember reading is my big, heavy book of fairy tales. It featured tales from the Grimm and Perrault collections, as well as some taken from the Arabian Nights and classic American…

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Katherine Briggs A dictionary of fairies

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Cover to The Hungarian Fairy Book, by Nandor and Willy Pogany

Dragons have always evoked a mixture of fear and attraction. They feature large in stories from all over the world.

From “The Happy Prince” to “The Beauty and the Beast,” by way of feminism and art history.

Identifier: olivefairybook00lang Title: The olive fairy book Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: tell him of the safety of his son, the kingcontented himself with adopting the baby, which wasbrought up with Geirlaug the princess. For a while things went well with the children, whowere as happy as the day was long, but at last therecame a time when the queen could no more run races orplay at hide-and-seek with them in the garden as she wasso fond of doing, but lay and watched them from a pile ofsoft cushions. By-and-by she gave up doing even that,and people in the palace spoke with low voices, and evenGeirlaug and Grethari. trod gently and moved quietlywhen they drew near her room. At length, one morning,they were sent for by the king himself, who, his eyes redwith weeping, told them that the queen was dead. Great was the sorrow of the two children, for they hadloved the queen very dearly, and life seemed dull withouther. But the lady-in-waiting who took care of them inthe tower which had been built for them while they were r>fflt&-^*lS-Tl^-->— — Jt~» ^ ,: V -_»— Text Appearing After Image: GEIRLAUG THE KINGS DAUGHTER 31 still babies, was kind and good, and when the king wasbusy or away in other parts of his kingdom she madethem quite happy, and saw that they were taught every-thing that a prince and princess ought to know. Thus twoor three years passed, when, one day, as the children wereanxiously awaiting their fathers return from a distant city,there rode post haste into the courtyard of the palace aherald whom the king had sent before him, to say that hewras bringing back a new wife. Now, in itself, there was nothing very strange ordreadful in the fact that the king should marry again,but, as the old lady-in-waiting soon guessed, the queen, inspite of her beauty, was a witch, and as it was easy to seethat she was jealous of everyone who might gain powerover her husband, it boded ill for Geirlaug and Grethari.The faithful woman could not sleep for thinking abouther charges, and her soul sank when, a few months afterthe marriage, war broke out with a country across the Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

140 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 30 cm.

64 pages : 31 cm