The Prince has travelled all over the world looking for a real Princess. When a girl knocks on the palace door one stormy night, claiming to be a Princess, the Queen decides to put her to the test: will she feel the pea underneath a pile of mattresses?

Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales including Chicken Licken, The princess and the pea, The ugly duckling, The frog prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the beanstalk, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, The tortoise and the hare, The gingerbread boy, and the Boy who cried wolf.

In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous related topics such as the fairy tale and film, television,...

Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within...

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sinbad to "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," and "The Sleeping Beauty," Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel,...

A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.

An updated version, set on the prairie, of the familiar story about a little girl, her grandmother, and a not-so-clever wolf.