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  2. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The 9 Most Popular Fairy Tale Stories of All Time - AOL

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    The post The 9 Most Popular Fairy Tale Stories of All Time appeared first on Reader's Digest. From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the fairy tale stories that shape our happily ...

  5. Lang's Fairy Books - Wikipedia

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    The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many ...

  6. Librarians Consider These the Best Children's Books of All Time

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    Each year, our team tests children's books of all types and genres with young readers for the annual Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Awards. Many newer picks on this list of the greatest children's ...

  7. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

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    Cutlery for children. Detail showing fairy-tale scenes: Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel. Originally, adults were the audience of a fairy tale just as often as children. [76] Literary fairy tales appeared in works intended for adults, but in the 19th and 20th centuries the fairy tale became associated with children's ...

  8. Hans Christian Andersen - Wikipedia

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    Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Danish: Eventyr, fortalt for Børn. Første Samling.) is a collection of nine fairy tales by Andersen. The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen between May 1835 and April 1837. They were Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre.

  9. The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Wikipedia

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    The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of bedtime stories for children by Oscar Wilde, first published in May 1888.It contains five stories that are highly popular among children and frequently read in schools: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket."