L. Frank Baum

Jack David Zipes

Rachell Sumpter

Dorothy visits the magical land of Oz, returns with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, and helps Princess Ozma try to prevent the Skeezers and Flatheads from fighting.

And Other Wonderful Books of Oz - The Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

Gianni Rodari

Considered a visionary in his own time, Rodari's well-respected pedagogical reflections, philosophies, and exercises appear in this book. Each essay is designed to guide the teacher on using fairy tales and folk tales for cognitive development and creative writing. "This book is a classic manual for educators interested in stimulating children to develop their own writing and reading skills in a manner that will enable children to gain greater autonomy." -- Jack Zipes, from his introduction.

An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

The Grammar of Fantasy

Essays discuss the history and development of fairy tales in cultures from all over the world and throughout history, including adaptation for film, art, opera, ballet, music, and commercial use.

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre

Why Fairy Tales Stick

Angela Carter

Charles Perrault

Seventeenth-century fairy tales adapted for contemporary readers.

Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. For this new edition, the author has revised the work throughout and added a new introduction bringing this classic title up to date.

The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

More Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights

Arabian Nights Volume II

Reviewer Series Editor Jack Zipes

The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition isindispensable for students of fairy tales.

From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm : Texts, Criticism

The Great Fairy Tale Tradition

Beverly Lyon Clark

Janice M. Alberghene

Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and reprints of six classic essays. The contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers, and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar, parent, and resisting male reader.

Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

Little Women and the Feminist Imagination

A collection of modern fairy tales presents familiar stories rewritten by American and British writers and offers alternatives to traditional plots

A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales

The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight

Aesop

Sardonic, wry and wise, Aesop�s Fables are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.

Jack David Zipes

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