Tales of wonder : retelling fairy tales through picture postcards /

The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images of Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales. The postcards gathered here by one of the world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zipes, Jack, 1937- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Fairy tales in art. Postcards. LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature. JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies. JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : telling an unknown history
Early fairy-tale Postcards and the art of storytelling
The tales
Classical tales
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Tom Thumb
Hansel and Gretel
Cinderella
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Puss in Boots
The Pied Piper
Rip Van Winkle
A mélange of the Brothers Grimm
Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
Russian fairy tales
Fairy-tale novels
Alice in Wonderland
Pinocchio
The Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan
The global cornucopia of fairy-tale postcards
The art
Photography series
Artist series
Epilogue : the art of retelling tales.