This book includes six tales, most of which are the Grimm Brothers' best-known tales including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumplestilskin, Hansel and Grethel, The Rabbit’s Bride, and The Shreds.

The book was initiated by the Maurice Sendak Foundation. King, author of “The Shining,” “Carrie” and other horror classics, ...

Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and happily ... “Then her mother gave her a knife and said, “Cut the toe off; when thou art Queen thou wilt have no more need to go on foot.” ...

Carol Ann Duffy’s Faery Tales, a heady mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, is a new collection of rebooted fairy stories packed tightly into 350 pages. No other writer can retell a story ...