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Tag: folk and fairy tale reviews

December 14, 2025 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Religious Tales

I mean, who doesn't love a good myth or legend?

December 14, 2024 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Religious Tales

Today's list combines the best parts of traditional storytelling and modern mores. Come and enjoy the old and the new together.

December 14, 2023 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Religious Tales

A show of hands. How many of you consider this your favorite list? If so, I've good news for you. 2023 was a PARTICULARLY strong year in this category. Enjoy!

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Religious Tales

December 14, 2022 by Betsy Bird

I've been pleased with the slow uptick in these titles over the last few years. So with that in mind, here are the stories and legends that did a particularly good job in 2022.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Fairy Folk, and Religious Tales

December 14, 2021 by Betsy Bird

Fairytales and folktales are like mushrooms. You have a general sense when they'll crop up but you never know quite where. Today, they're cropping up here.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Fairy, Folk, and Religious Tales

December 14, 2020 by Betsy Bird

This year I was impressed by the sheer variety of the stories on display. Hope you like your tales done in all kinds of styles from all kinds of places! This year was a good one for this category.

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Fairytales, Folktales, and Religious Tales

December 14, 2019 by Betsy Bird

One of my favorite lists! Original and traditional tales for everyone to enjoy.

Review of the Day: Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women retold by Kate Forsyth, ill. Lorena Carrington

July 25, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Why not crank things up a notch and hand a kid a collection of fairy tales full of strong, clever, wily female characters that have to use their brains? If you’ve waited for such a collection, brimming over with strange stories and illustrated with even stranger art, this is the book you didn’t know you deserved until it arrived. Fairytale feminism, old school style.

Review of the Day: Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit, ill. Arthur Rackham

February 20, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Want to look at Cinderella through the mores of the 21st century? I suggest pairing yourself up with an artist that’s been dead for 80 years. Why it’s so crazy, it just might work.

Review of the Day: Dwarf Nose by Wilhelm Hauff

March 11, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Dwarf Nose By Wilhelm Hauff Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger Translated by Anthea Bell Minedition $19.99 ISBN: 97898888341139 Ages 8-12 On shelves April 1st It seems so funny to me that for all that our culture loves and adores fairytales, scant attention is paid to the ones that can rightfully be called both awesome and obscure. […]

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