Matilda to Alice in Wonderland - The classics you may already know, and the hidden gems that deserve more attention – as chosen by Philip Womack ...

Ecological themes are deftly woven into The Last Wild Cat, which intersects with Maori myth and the ethics of animal rights. In its respectable villain, Professor Smoult, it challenges ideas of ...

Thought fairy tales ... and bedtime stories for the best part of a century - so here are the darkest fairy tales from the bookshelf revealed. “From this story one learns that children ...

Most of the fairy tales we know are traditional stories ... of the park after only the first story in this book. Wicked wives, resourceful children, evil parents and murderers all play their ...

most of which are the Grimm Brothers' best-known tales including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumplestilskin, Hansel and Grethel, The Rabbit’s Bride, and The Shreds. The illustrations are simple ...

IN designing the plan of this book the author seems to have thought ... and stories for separate occasions. The Rain-children. A Fairy-tale in Physics. By T. H. Orpen. With seven illustrations ...

The imagined worlds of fairy tales offer not only entertainment for children but also reflections on contemporary times. Polish writers such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Bolesław Prus, and ...

Many of these stories are tucked away in dusty books or forgotten by modern society. That said, we revisit 15 forgotten fairy tales so you can retell the legendary stories to your children or read ...