AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

MAGIC KINGDOMS.('The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales')

The New Yorker

| December 09, 2002 | Gopnik, Adam | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

At the sand-logged, mildewy tail end of a beach vacation, four exhausted parents take two seven-year-olds to a rainy-day play, "The Fairy Tale Detective": the tales of the Three Bears and Hansel and Gretel and Red Riding Hood, retold as though in a film noir, complete with raincoated detectives and lynx-eyed blondes. Puzzled looks from the seven-year-olds: the kids, the startled parents realize, just don't know the fairy tales, don't know the material or the usual spirit in which they're told. At last, one parent whispers, "It's a parody, a kind of joke--you know, like the Mr. Peabody stories on the 'Bullwinkle' videos." Instant enlightenment crosses their features; oh, ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Redfern, Walter April 1, 2008 700+ words
Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance...activities since the appearance of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical...as a companion to that volume, Why Fairy Tales Stick also takes readers through Zipes...
Fairy tales continue to have value for children, experts say.(Originated from...
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Melvin, Gayle Vassar August 13, 1996 700+ words
...more sophisticated and lost their need for fairy tales. Or did they? Today's children may need the magic of fairy tales even more than their parents did, says Bette Bosma, author of ``Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends and Myths: Using Folk...
Experts Say Fairy Tales Not So Happy Ever After.
News wire article from: AScribe Law News Service November 11, 2003 700+ words
...Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fairy tales about pretty princesses winning Prince...study how beauty is written about in fairy tales and whether stories with beautiful princesses...confusing for today's young women. "Fairy tales, which are still read by millions of...
THE FEMINIST MOTHER GOOSE IN ``FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE,'' MARINA WARNER...
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot January 7, 1996 700+ words
...SCHARPER FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers MARINA WARNER Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 463 pp. $35. Fairy tales evoke our deepest feelings of loss and...From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, adds a feminist...
Folk and fairy tales.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies January 1, 2002 700+ words
...The anthology also includes literary fairy tales written in the nineteenth century by...both prose and poetry) of traditional fairy tales, critical essays about fairy stories...plates of visual art based on traditional fairy tales. My initial reaction to this anthology...
Fractured Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince Wins Newsweek Editors' Choice Award for...
Press release article from: Business Wire November 21, 1996 700+ words
...Choice (TM) Award for Fractured Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince. The product was...NewsweekParentsGuide.com. Fractured Fairy Tales is also featured in Newsweek's Fall...consumers of all ages, and with Fractured Fairy Tales winning this award, it brings us that...
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Magazine article from: The New Leader Pettingell, Phoebe February 22, 1988 700+ words
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales DURING THE 1950s, when I was growing...public debate raged over the effects of fairy tales on the minds of young children. A number...the arguments centered on Grimm's Fairy Tales. Because of the unfortunate homonym...
FOLK, FAIRY TALES ARE ENDLESSLY APPEALING
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) November 2, 1994 700+ words
...in the Valparaiso edition. Folk and fairy tales should be a part of every child's...Stories for Young Children." Folk and fairy tales are also a wonderful way to learn about...world has changed vastly, but folk and fairy tales are timeless in their appeal. Many...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA