Aesop's Fables

 

• Aesop's Fables: Exercise Your Mind, Enrich Your Character - 82 fables.

 

• Aesop's Fables - Fables in full text.

 

• Fables from Project Gutenberg - Contains a preface explaining the background of the fables, the life of Aesop and the full text of the fables.

 

 

The Brothers Grimm

 

• Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers - This web edition of tales form the Grim Brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen includes both German and English versions of the fairy tales, along with a selection of illustrations from 19th-century editions.

 

• Grimm Brothers' Resources

 

• The Household Tales - Full text of the Household Tales.

 

• 209 Tales of the Brothers' Grimm - 209 tales in e-text format.

 

 

Fairy Tale Imagery and Illustration

 

• Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project - These pages provide an in-depth look at important children's book illustrators from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 

• Fairy Tale Art Images - Images by many well known and not so well known illustrators.

 

Individual Illustrators

 

• Cicely Mary Barker 1895—1973

 

• Gustave Dore 1832-1883

 

• Beatrix Potter 1866-1943

 

• Howard Pyle 1853 1911

 

 

Classic Fairy Tales:

 

• Sur LaLune Collection Collection of annotated fairy tales including histories, biographies, and comparisons between similar tales. You will find information on The Frog King Goose Girl, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss In Boots, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltzkin, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

 

Individual Collections and Stories

 

• Andrew Lang 1844-1912

 

• Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales - Electronic text editions of his fairy books from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, Violet Fairy Book, and the Yellow Fairy Book.

 

• Arabian Nights as translated by Sir Richard Burton (1850).

 

• Beauty and the Beast

 

• Cinderella- A text and image archive of a dozen English-language versions of Cinderella published between 1729 and 1912.

 

• Sleeping Beauty - Variations on Sleeping Beauty.

 

• Snow White - Comparative texts of Snow White.

 

 

French Fairy Tales

 

• Charles Perrault - Article from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

• Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales

 

 

Hans Christian Andersen

 

• Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen - A chronology of his life together with complete illustrated works.

 

• The Hans Christian Andersen Center - In Danish and English, this site contains Hans Christian Andersen's life and works with texts and information.

 

 

Resources for Librarians and Teachers

 

• Children's Literature Collection - The DeGrummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers in the field of children's literature. Although the Collection has many strengths, the main focus is on American and British children's literature, historical and contemporary. These collections of tales date from their early retellings in the 18th century up to the modern reinterpreted editions of the 1990s and everything in between.

 

• The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room - The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room is located in the Information Sciences Library at the University of Pittsburgh and houses several special collections related to the history of children and their books and media. The volumes in this collection include more than 12,000 books and magazine titles of interest dating from the 1600's through today.

 

• Fairy Tales Discussion Board - A forum to discuss fairy tales and folklore, including questions, analysis, and news.

 

• Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tale Theme Page - A comprehensive site containing stories organized by type, author, and region. Also contains lessons plans to incorporate the stories into the classroom.

 

• Survey and Commentary on Fairy Tales and Legends - This site looks at the beginnings of literary fairy tales: who wrote them, and who was meant to read them; and how some of the most popular fairy tales have changed and been sanitized over the years. This is an introduction to the darker origins of fairy tales.

 

• World of the Child : Fables and Fairy Tales - University of Delaware Library exhibit on fairy tales and fables. This site provides an excellent history of fables and fairy tales, books of instruction, primers, stories before 1850 and stories after 1850.