Before Disney softened them for the screen, fairy tales were strange, unsettling stories about monsters, danger and survival.

"My kids would put out their shoes and the Full Moon Fairy would come and bring them a trinket," creator Karly Bonfante tells PEOPLE exclusively of her books Shane O'Donnell Karly Bonfante, a Los ...

The reality of magical creatures like fairies, elves, witches and more is often debated. Most of our cultural understanding and beliefs about fairies come from mainstream movies, TV shows and comics.

More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...

I am a major fan of folklore and superstition, especially folktales from around the world. There are so many lessons you can learn from fairy tales, and loads of fairy tale retellings that can twist ...

“I had been curious about the Irish side of my biracial family heritage,” says Ken Yoshikawa, author of From a Hole in the Ground, debuting Sept. 27 at Northwest Children’s Theater. “So I leapt at the ...

Author Kirsty Logan tells us why we should read aloud to adults and why we're all misusing the phrase "fairy tale." Sarah is CNET's senior copy editor in London. She's often found reading, playing ...

From Sang Kancil’s wit to Puteri Santubong’s magic, local fairy tales offer moral lessons and hope in conjunction with Tell A Fairy Tale Day today.

Every family has one, a fairy. You can probably think of one in your own family. The oddball, the one who marches to a different drum, is cut from a different cloth, who seems away with the … well, ...