Christopher Healy is a fan of fairy tales. Healy is the author of The Hero’s Guide trilogy, in which the Princes Frederic, Liam, Gustav, and Duncan, (the princes featured in Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Snow White) band together and go on hilarious adventures involving physical danger and personal growth. These books flesh out the [...]
Tina Kelley is a former New York Times reporter and the author of two books of poetry, Preciseand The Gospel of Galore, and the co-author of the non-fiction book, Almost Home: Helping Kids Move From Homelessness to Hope. Her favorite fairy tale is “The Frog Prince,” a tale of a princess and a frog who [...]
“It’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely. Almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they’ll open their eyes and it will all come true.” Just try to go a day without fairy tales. They are a part of our culture. Stripping away the decorations of [...]
Imagine bedtime in a faraway land, where fairy tales don’t exist. A five-year-old boy – we’ll call him Jack – asks his mother to check under his bed for monsters. “There’s no such thing as monsters, Jack,” his mother replies. She sits down on the bed to curl up with Jack, assuring him – with [...]
