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  • The Grammar of Fantasy

    An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Translated by Jack Zipes ...
    From the father of modern Italian children’s literature, this is one of the great works about the imagination and how stories are made—featuring radiant illustrations from Matthew Forsythe and a refreshed translation from Jack Zipes.A Marginalian Favorite Book of 2025!"Holds great value for the adults who teach kids and the adults who write for them." —Mac Barnett, U.S. National Ambassador for ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmPerhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wrath of Peace or How the Wellikans Saved the World

    by Jack Zipes ...
    This captivating story follows the journey of twins Anja and Zack, two young witches who are separated from their parents after a ruthless dictator named Nexus takes control of the world. Guided by a mysterious, elderly witch, they set out to find the Wellikans, a hidden people living on a dark and secretive island. With her wisdom and support, Anja and Zack reach the island and join forces with ... Read more

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  • The Cloak of Dreams

    Chinese Fairy Tales

    by Béla Balázs ...
    Series series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
    "What baroque dreams, grotesque scenes, ghostly, ridiculous, strange, and chilling brainstorms! . . . remarkable, original, and uncanny." —Thomas MannA man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife ... Read more

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  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    An Anthology of Magical Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales—in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Giuseppe Pitrè ...
    Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again . . . .So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound as if they've been told time and again—such as variations on Cinderella and Puss in Boots—many will enchant English-language readers and ... Read more

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  • Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland's unique nineteenth-century tales.Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker

    by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas balletIt wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex. This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King (1816), in which a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

    by Giambattista Basile ...
    Translated by Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leda and the Ma­gi­cian

    The par­ti­san girl of Mount Ami­ata

    by Ermanno Detti, Roberto Innocenti, Jack Zipes ...
    Translated by Carol Dines ...
    1944, Italy is under the nazis. Leda, ten year old girl, has to carry secret messages to the partisans.One day, however, she is intercepted by the Germans. The girl manage to escape but the Germans follow her. She’s going to drown into the river when she’s saved by a strange old man who lives in a cave: he calls himself the “wizard”.Leda suspect that the old man is a spy for the Germans and would ... Read more

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  • Grimm Legacies

    The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale.Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ... Read more

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