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The Feather of Finist the Falcon; The Green Knight. " The Blue Bird " (French: L’oiseau bleu) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. [1] An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book, 1892, collected by Andrew Lang. [2][3][4]
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. [1] The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red ...
First edition. Author. Jay Williams. Publisher. Scholastic. Publication date. 1979. The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales is a collection of six short stories, written by Jay Williams, in 1979, [ 1] and published by Hippo from Scholastic. Each story features nods in some way to classic fairy tales. [citation needed]
Good Night Stories has sold over one million copies, and has been translated into more than 47 languages. [5] They have received praise for being an alternative to the stereotypical portrayal of girls and women in fiction (such as the Disney Princess), or books about heroes which primarily focus on male protagonists. It focuses on telling young ...
The story tells about an Arab prince who acquires a magical horse to compete in a tournament for the hand of a Christian princess of Toledo. [240] [241] The tale serves as one of the two inspirations for Amal el-Mohtar's short story "Seasons of Glass and Iron", one of whose two protagonists is a princess sitting atop a glass hill.
In the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, the tale is classified - and gives its name - to tale type ATU 511, "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes". [1] Folklorist Stith Thompson noted the proximity of the tale type with ATU 510A, "Cinderella", and ATU 510B, "Cap O' Rushes" - also stories of heroines persecuted by their families.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales. "The Remarkable Rocket" is a short fairytale that was first published in 1888 in The Happy Prince and Other Tales which is a collection of five fairytales written by Oscar Wilde. [1] The Remarkable Rocket is a parody of aristocratic vanity and masculine conceit. [2] Although the story is written in simple ...
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition ...
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