The movie theater was dark, a sense of excitement filled the air and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was on the large screen. The year was 1954 and I was five years old. My father sat next to me in ...

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The Royal Heart, a children’s book by Greg McGoon, has many markers of a classic fairy tale: A royal court, a far off setting, a coming of age narrative, and a magical transformation, to name a few.

Who doesn’t love a fairy tale movie? Full of magic, enchantments, and mythical beings like wizards, goblins, elves, and fairies, these folk tales are loved by all. Although these fictional narratives ...

Movies like "The Lion King," "Bambi," "Finding Nemo," and "Tarzan" all have moments that show the sudden death of certain characters. Everett Collection (4) It’s not easy being the mom or dad of a ...

Once there was a hardworking girl with a wicked stepmother and a heart of gold. She got a makeover from a fairy godmother, scored a dance with a prince and snagged a happily ever after in a pretty ...

Actor and children’s author Greg McGoon had hit the second book slump. His first book, Out of the Box, chronicled a boy who uses his imagination to make friends. But now he found himself straining for ...

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There was a time when fairy tales were much more than just bedtime stories. Actually, the fanciful tales that have enthralled generations of people have their roots in real historical events. Real ...

Fairy tales, Kate Bernheimer writes in the introduction to her new anthology, “My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me,” are our Ur-narratives. They deal with the subjects on which every ...