What if every fairy tale you heard as a child was just one part of the story? What if another version was more realistic and perhaps a bit more wild? Would you want to read it? Of course you would; we ...

What a delicious jolt nostalgia can deliver! There are moments in adulthood when we catch sight of something we’d forgotten we loved as children, and it feels as though a gong has been struck in our ...

If you’re looking for the best children’s books of fairy tales for kids, find what you need on this big list of wonderful picture books, chapter books, and middle grade books of popular fairy tales ...

Author Erik Forrest Jackson explains how kids (and their parents!) will get a kick out of this Muppets version of the literary classics There’s a fun way for elementary school kids (and parents!) to ...

An accomplished novelist and master prose stylist, Michael Cunningham is known in particular for his intertextual practice, something he used to great effect in his 1998 novel, “The Hours,” which ...

In this universe, Little Red seduces the Big Bad Wolf, Beauty transforms into a literal fur skin beast, and Puss in Boots uses murder to get what he wants. No, you haven't stumbled into a nightmare, ...

Blending Irish folklore with the classic story of Sleeping Beauty, "Thornhedge" takes a familiar childhood tale and tosses it into the muddy bogs of the Fairie realm. This story has been told ...

We love traditional fairy tales, but putting a sexier spin on old favorites can add some extra magic. We've rounded up some of the best retellings of classic tales out there — ones chock-full of evil ...

Five retellings of classic tales let the light shine through the cracks. By Sabrina Orah Mark When my son, Noah, was younger, he had a small stuffed bunny he named L.F., short for Lost and Found. As ...

Esme is a LA based writer who you can follow on Twitter! It wasn’t always easy work. “You should see my spreadsheet! I got real mathematical and dipped into Excel,” the author tells EW of matching ...

In The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger married her gently wry sensibility to a classic science-fiction conceit, and the result became a literary sensation — as much a tried-and-true staple of ...