Jack and his mother were poor had to sell the cow because she had nothing left to sell. Jack never helped her and only expressed hunger. He sells the cow to the old man in exchange for beans, but Jack ...

Whether you're a full-fledged Disney adult or the name Grimm means nothing to you, these novels based on fairy tales will tickle your fancy The words Once Upon a Time have always carried magic for me.

Is it just me, or are fairy tales having a bit of a renaissance these days? Of course, fairy tales have been around for as long as we've had puberty, or storytelling, or dark, wolf-infested woods.

In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of never-published fairy- and folktales collected by the 19th-century folklorist ...