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English
Children's
CHB PIN The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney
CHB 398.2 HAM Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
398.2 BAB Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairytales
398.2 CAS The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales by Sheldon Cashdan
398.2 FAI Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches edited by Donald Haase
398.2 TEL The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art edited by W.S. Penn
398.2 ZIP Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
398.2089 AFR African American Folktales edited by Roger D. Abrahams
398.245 BET The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
813.4 HIS The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
Ref 398.2 ASH Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook by D.L. Ashliman
Databases
Web Articles
Book Riot, “Why Do We Sanitize Fairy Tales?”
Brain Pickings, “J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing ‘For Children’”
The Guardian, "Five Hundred New Fairytales Discovered in Germany"
Mental Floss, “8 Fairytales and Their Not-So-Happy Endings"
National Endowment for the Humanities, “How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairytale”
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