Works Referenced
This list is appropriate for both students and teachers. Some books are actual fairy tales, while others are about the history of fairy tales - all are appropriate for both teachers and students.
Bang, Molly. Picture This: Perception and Composition. Boston, MA: Little Brown. 1991. A fantastic book about composition using Little Red Riding Hood as its basis.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York, NY: Random House, Inc. 1975. An interesting book about the psychology of children and how they relate to fairy tales.
Carter, Angela. Company of Wolves. Harper & Row. 1981. Red Riding Hood seduces the wolf.
Dahl, Roald. Revolting Rhymes. New York, NY: Puffin Books. 1982. A collection of updated fairy tales where outrageous things happen at the end of the tales - very entertaining.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Cinderella. There are a variety of different collections of Brother's Grimm fairy tales. This is an older version of Cinderella where the fairy godmother is replaced by birds.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Little Red-Cap. Again, this story can be found in a number of short story collections. It is a typical version of Red Riding Hood.
Hoodwinked. Animated film questioning each of the characters in Little Red Riding Hood.
Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. "The Three Little Pigs". Everyman's Library. 1993. Contains a typical version of The Three Little Pigs.
Kellogg, Steven. The Three Little Pigs. New York, NY: Morrow Junior Books. 1997. A wonderfully illustrated version where the pigs own a waffle stand.
Kha, Dang Manh. In the Land of Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale. Viking Press. 1979. A beautiful tale full of morals and similar to Cinderella.
Mayer, Marianna. Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1994. Russian Cinderella.
Minters, Frances. Cinder-Elly. New York, NY: Puffin Books. 1994. Rap version of Cinderella, updated so that Cinderella must go to a basketball game on her bike.
Perrault, Charles. Cinderella: Or the Little Glass Slipper. There are a variety of collections of Perrault's fairy tales. This is Cinderella with an interesting moral.
Perrault, Charles. Little Red Riding Hood. Again, there are a variety of collections of Perrault's fairy tales. Little Red Riding Hood with an interesting moral.
Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press. 1978. A brief history of fairy tales from their origins, which can be helpful to understand how they came to exist.
Scieszka, Jon. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. New York, NY: Puffin Books. 1989. The Three Little Pigs told from the Wolf's perspective.
Shorto, Russell. Cinderella's Stepsister, and Cinderella: the Untold Story. Carroll Publishing Corp. 1992. Cinderella told from the evil step sister's point of view.
Steptoe, John. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale. New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books. 1987. A tale of sibling rivalry and karma. This story has fantastic illustrations.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/read/plot1.html A website which contains useful, very basic information on the elements of a story.
Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment. Meridian Books. 1991. Another good resource for the history of fairy tales.
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