What if every fairy tale you heard as a child was just one part of the story? What if another version was more realistic and perhaps a bit more wild? Would you want to read it? Of course you would; we ...

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We love traditional fairy tales, but putting a sexier spin on old favorites can add some extra magic. We've rounded up some of the best retellings of classic tales out there — ones chock-full of evil ...

What a delicious jolt nostalgia can deliver! There are moments in adulthood when we catch sight of something we’d forgotten we loved as children, and it feels as though a gong has been struck in our ...

From “Cinderella” to “The Three Little Pigs,” there are stories that are so deeply embedded in our literature and culture that we might not recall the first time we heard them. Certainly, though, ...

When you look at a child's bookshelf, you expect to see colorful picture books with imaginary animals, classic chapter books about mice riding off on motorcycles, and age-old fairy tales retold in new ...

Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons. Folklorists believe that some stories got their start as anecdotes that were spun over time into such good yarns ...

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A little magic can happen with children’s books that point to the natural world. Mix in a little imagination and add the ingredient of an online Spokane library class to build your own fairy house. Or ...

Once upon a time, Jonathan Plackett developed an algorithm that would simply swap the gender of the characters in traditional fairy tales to show how stereotypes have survived the generations of ...