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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
English fairy tales, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings.
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit; The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales; Tanglewood Tales; Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins; The Books of Earthsea; The Three Witch Maidens; Tim the Tiny Horse; Tim the Tiny Horse at Large; Tongue-Tied (short story collection) Topsy Turvy Tales; Tortoise Tales; Truce of the Wolf and Other ...
List of Panchatantra stories; Pentamerone; The People Could Fly; Peter and the Piskies; The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo; Politically Correct Bedtime Stories; Popular Tales of the West Highlands; The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
Similar stories are found in later works including Aesop's Fables and the Sindbad tales in Arabian Nights. [4] Aesop's Fables: Aesop: c. 600 BC [5] [6] Kathasaritsagara: Somadeva: 11th Century AD: Collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva.
The reason for this targeted pruning, according to The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, is that the Grimms saw their collection as an opportunity to reframe the stories as children's tales. "The classic fairy tale was appropriated to serve the purpose of socializing children," writes Tatar, and "the Grimms seem to have ...
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.