Halfway to Fairyland

  So I was thinking this morning about Perrault, and his annoying tendency to ruin perfectly good stories with self-righteous moralizing. If...

So I wrote another book. The Shoemaker Prince is a collection of thirteen short stories based on or inspired by folklore, and it’s coming ou...

Last time we finally finished our long search for “The Impossible Enchantment.” So today  I thought it would be fun to go through the whole ...

  *Update: After writing this and just before posting it, I found the story! It’s “The Impossible Enchantment” by Comte de Caylus, recorded ...

 So there’s a particular detail of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” that’s always stood out to me, but I’ve never seen anyone address it ...

Let’s talk today about fairy tales and their softening over time.   Now, I mean this, not in the sense that in the Grimm brothers and Perr...

So the other day I was flipping through my Kay Nielsen-illustrated “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” collection with my mom, because sh...