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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition more books like this

by Johnny Gruelle (Illustrator), Professor Jack Zipes (Translator)

The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale

Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale more books like this

by Sibylle Von Olfers, Sieglinde Schoen-Smith (Illustrator), Professor Jack Zipes (Translator)

As Spring approaches, Mother Earth wakes her sleepy children, deep below the earth, the children yawn and stretch. Soon their hands are busy, stitching new clothes in bright spring colours. The dust of the bumblebees, scrub the beetles and paint splendid new coats on the ladybirds. The children jubilantly emerge from the earth where they become ...

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Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English

Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor), Lissa Paul (Editor), Professor Lynne Vallone (Editor)

This new Norton Anthology traces the remarkable innovation and enduring pleasures of children's literature. It includes 170 authors and illustrators of alphabets and animal fables, fairy tales and fantasy, picture books and nursery verse, among many other genres.

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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse more books like this

by Hermann Hesse, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

A collection a fairy tales, many containing a strong satirical edge, written for adults by the celebrated author of "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf".

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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behaviour. In the seven essays in this collection, Zipes discusses historically and critically the evolution of folk tales as fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and the way they ...

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes, Zipes Jack

Addressing his ongoing concerns, the author of this text examines the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as a film. As a result of analyzing the historical trajectory of storytelling and the literary fairy tale, the essays in this volume move from the 16th ...

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Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender ...

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Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture more books like this

by Various, Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

Zipes brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, giving readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Includes more than 60 tales by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, and more. Illustrated.

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Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World

Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World more books like this

by Kathleen Ragan (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Humans of all eras and cultures have lived with fear: of becoming jaguar prey, of being besieged by Vikings or of nuclear holocaust. For millennia, huddled around campfires and hearths, we have created folktales to help us transform this fear into action, into solutions, into hope. Inspired by the residual fear and need for stories of resilience ...

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Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight

Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor), Stephane Poulin (Illustrator)

Always provocative, frequently hilarious, and at times deeply poignant, these enchanting fairy tales--selected by children's literature expert Jack Zipes--are as marvelous to read aloud with a child as they are to enjoy in solitude. Magnificent, original full-page and spot illustrations by Stephane Poulin enhance the text.

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Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens more books like this

by James Matthew Barrie, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play "Peter Pan", which opened in 1904 and became the novel "Peter and ...

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Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Noted translator and scholar of the Brothers Grimm, author Zipes turns the prevailing assumptions about children's literature into grist for a sure-to-be-controversial thesis. Zipes contend that most books for children, from 19th-century moral tales to Harry Potter, inhibit, rather than cultivate, a child's creativity and intelligence.

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Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault more books like this

by Angela Carter, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by)

Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely ...

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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late 17th century, also the ideological relationship to domination and oppression in western society.

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The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz more books like this

by L Frank Baum, Professor Jack Zipes, W W Denslow (Illustrator)

The complete and unabridged original story of Dorothy and her companions the tin woodman, the scarecrow and the cowardly lion, and her enchanting journey along the yellow brick road in search of the wonderful wizard which gave rise to the famous movie.

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The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

With over 100 fairy tales from around the world--many appearing in an English translation for the first time--this anthology features familiar tales like those from the Brothers Grimm, alongside many little-known stories. Features, in addition, author biographies and critical essays

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Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and many other now classic tales. Jack Zipes broadens our ...

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

Where do fairy tales come from? Why do we find them so enchanting? What is it about them that is so magical? From its origins in the oral tradition to the modern methods of storytelling through film and television, the fairy tale has always had a powerful grip over the cultural imagination of the Western world. Under the editorial guidance of Jack ...

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: Four-Volume Set more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor)

Children's literature first became a distinct body of writing and publishing in the eighteenth century. Until the seventeenth century, children were usually considered as smaller versions of adults. As the notion of "childhood" as a distinct part of life emerged, a distinct body of literature emerged as well, designed both to entertain and edify ...

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Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature more books like this

by Julia L Mickenberg (Editor), Philip Nel (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Foreword by)

In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries 'Strike down the wall!' and liberates itself from the 'egg state'. In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it.Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, ...

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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World, Second Edition more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes takes us behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political ...

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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? Until now we have lacked a social history of the fairy tale to frame our understanding of the role it plays in our lives. ...

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Aesop's Fables more books like this

by Professor Jack Zipes (Editor), Samuel F Pickering (Introduction by)

This collection of more than 60 of Aesop's fables includes "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy who Cried Wolf," and "The Lion and the Mouse." Color illustrations accompany the text. Named a Year 2000 Notable Book by the New York Times, and one of the Best Children's Books 2000 by Publishers Weekly.

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The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm more books like this

by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Professor Jack Zipes (Translator), Johnny Gruelle (Illustrator)

The brothers Grimm--Wilhelm and Jacob--devoted their lives to collecting these German legends, originally published in 1812 as CHILDREN'S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES. They include such classics as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales more books like this

by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Afterword by), Maria Tatar (Foreword by)

Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. "Brothers and Beasts" offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories. In their ...

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