Milana Anderson's new book got me thinking unexpectedly about how fairy tales not only can help readers ​learn about animal ...

Research shows fairy tales are vehicles that help children and adults better understand their world. Kyra Miles of Minnesota Public Radio reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

There’s long been a “survival of the fittest” aspect about folklore. Just as animals evolve and become better adapted to their environments over time, stories such as “Snow White” and “Beauty and the ...

Many students come to Iowa State University looking at college as a simple walk-in, walk-out ordeal, entirely missing out on ...

Zipes might argue that its truth stems from an engagement with its conditions of origin. As he has persuasively shown, both in his most recent book and in many previous ones, the tales reflect the ...

Prof. Armando Maggi, PhD’95, began his Humanities Day 2011 lecture with a clip from the opening scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1938, it was the first fairy tale to be turned ...

Classic fairy tales are reimagined in present-day New York in the dark CBS All Access series "Tell Me a Story." The forests and cottages of those old fables are an urban jungle here, populated with ...