Everyone loves a good story with a princess, a silver tower, birds turned to dragons, a frog and — of course — a fairy or two with special talents and surprising abilities. Jane Harrington has written ...

Disney would never have taken off if it hadn't been for fairy tales. But the original stories were not as wholesome as the House of Mouse made them out to be. Maybe you've read the original fairy ...

Improbably, a girl finds strawberries in the snow to feed her stepmother in The Three Little Men in the Woods. If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney, or some other sweetened ...