Charles Perrault, author of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella was born 388 years ago, and has been commemorated with a Google Doodle. Perrault was born in Paris in 1628 ...

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark, and based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale of the same name, Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959, and though it ...

The Disney animated film Cinderella was also based on a Charles Perrault story. 65 years later, the movie is still relevant. Sleeping Beauty is a great film, with many underlying themes ...

Perrault's timeless fairy tale about a young girl cursed to sleep for one hundred years has been turned into a supernatural tale of vampires, fairies and decadent gothic opulence. Yet in the end ...

The first Disney Princess was, of course, Snow White, followed by Cinderella in 1950 and Aurora from Sleeping Beauty. The latter, based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale of the same name ...

I take a story from Perrault that I love so ... to be honest. From "The Sleeping Beauty" there remains a lot, the wood, the spindle, the 100-year sleep, the fairies, good ones and evil ones ...

Written for Charles Perrault’s four children, the “Tales” inspired countless composers, including Peter Tchaikovsky, whose 1890 ballet “Sleeping Beauty” became the foundation for the ...

By Rix Quinn This month we recognize the birthday of Charles Perrault, who preserved folk tales like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty” and many more. We’d bake him a cake, but since he was ...