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“Diamonds and Toads”: A Fairy Tale About Getting What You Deserve?

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Illustration of a scene from "Diamonds and Toads" or "The Fairies": A young woman fills a jug of water, while an old woman rests in the background.
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“Diamonds and Toads”: A Fairy Tale About Getting What You Deserve?

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author Christine Calella and the cover of her upcoming novel, Liar's Kingdom
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Revealing Liar’s Kingdom by Christine Calella

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Illustration: Beauty sits on a chair at a dining table while the Beast sits beside her on the floor
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Five Thorny Retellings That Offer a Twist on “Beauty and the Beast”

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Illustration from "Beauty and the Beast"
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Six Enchanting Retellings of “Beauty and the Beast”

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An illustration. While revelers drink in an adjacent room, a lone woman weeps over a pot cooking on the stove.
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Before the Forest

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Painting of a woman sitting at a hearth, holding a sleeping child on her lap
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Motherhood: A Fairy Tale

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Illustration of Snow White sitting outside a cabin with the seven drawfs
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Twelve Poems That Remix and Reimagine Fairy Tales

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Cover of Mouth by Puloma Ghosh, showing a picture of a mouth and a picture of a section of an orange or grapefruit.
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An Evocative, Surreal Debut: Mouth by Puloma Ghosh

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Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) dances with Jareth (David Bowie) in a scene from the movie Labyrinth
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Five Fantasy Movies With Timeless Fairy Tale Vibes

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Illustration of a man and woman huddled together in a small boat among the waves
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Ships in the Night

How to Fight a Fairy Tale: Retellings in the Age of Romantasy

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Illustration of a Princess rushing to a Prince, with partygoers in the background
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Fairy Tales

Five Fantasy Novels With Fairy Tale Vibes

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Illustration from The Frog Prince, artist unknown. The Frog hands the Princess her golden ball which he has retrieved from the well.
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Fairy Tales

The Hoppiest Ending of All: Retelling “The Frog Prince”

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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