Fairy Tale Websites

 

*  Cinderella Stories

A list of variations on the Cinderella story from the Children's Literature Web Guide

 

*  Little Red Riding Hood Project

A text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale

 

*  Snow White Website

An academic look at the fairy tale and its variations

 

*  Jack and the Beanstalk Project

Welcome to the Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project, a text and image archive containing several English versions of the fairy tale

 

*  Cinderella Project

The Cinderella stories presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

 

*  Cinderella Bibliography

Links to discussions and the actual Cinderella stories from all around the world.

 

*  Grimm Fairy Tales

German and English versions of the fairy tales, along with a selection of illustrations from the 19th century

 

*  Grimm Brothers Homepage

Scroll down about half way to “Studies of Specific Tales” to find various versions of the more familiar Grimm Fairy Tales

 

*  The SurLaLune Fairy Tales Site

A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales

 

*  Aesop’s Fables Online Collection

Includes more than 655 fables and commentary along with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and several graphic timelines

 

      *  From Folklore to Forever – Grimms’ Fairy Tales

12 of Grimms’ most famous Fairy Tales, some with audio.

 

*  The Endicott Studio Forum: Essays on mythic fiction, folklore, and more

If you love to read about fairy tales, this is a terrific site!  The authors of modern fairy tales write the essays.

 

*  Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales -- Links

This CLN Theme Page has links to two types of resources related to the study of Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans), which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.

 

*  Folk and Fairy Tale Website Links

Very extensive links to a wide variety of folk and fairy stories from around the world.

 

*  Tales of Wonder

Folk and Fairy Tales from around the world with links to online tales from Africa, India, Russia, Central Asia, Ireland, Scandinavia, Central Europe, Japan, Scotland, China, Middle East, Siberia, England, and Native America.

 

*  The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy           A book by Donald R. Hettinga, available at Sunrise Mountain Library

      920 Hetting

 

*  From the Land of Enchantment: Creative Teaching with Fairy Tales     A book by Jerry D. Flack, available at SMHS

      370.157 Flack

 

*  Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults   A book by Anna E. Altman, available at SMHS

      398.2083 Altmann

 

*      From Fairy Tales to Novels

 

Hale, Shannon

The Goose Girl

The Goose Girl

 

Lynn, Tracy

Snow       

Snow White

 

Maguire, Gregory

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Cinderella

 

Maguire, Gregory

Mirror, Mirror

Snow White

 

Schmidt, Gary D.

Straw into Gold

Rumplestiltskin

 

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