Every week we ask you a different question. Hear what people in London say, then join the conversation! What's your favourite fairy tale? Join the conversation. What's your favourite fairy tale? Use ...

Once upon a time, there was a knight who bore a wyvern (a type of dragon) on his shield, and who one day was riding past Gloucester when he heard of a magical fairy mound. It was a place where tired ...

Whether you're an artist seeking inspiration, a history enthusiast, or just someone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of modern life, Bibury offers an enchanting retreat. It's a place where the ...

In Grimms’ Fairy Tales there is a story called “The Stubborn Child” that is only one paragraph long. Here it is, in a translation by the fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes: Once upon a time there was a ...

Editors’ Note: In March on the Book Bench, Maria Tatar wrote about a cache of five-hundred Bavarian fairy tales that were unearthed recently in Germany. The fairy tales were compiled by the nineteenth ...

“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

A public university in the deep red state of Arkansas offers an interdisciplinary writing course in its English department called "Queer Childhoods," according to the school's course directory.The ...

In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of never-published fairy- and folktales collected by the 19th-century folklorist ...

Should we update classic stories with modern morals? Two film-based kerfuffles have reopened the question. Reports that the next James Bond “won’t be white” have provoked a backlash, as did the launch ...