For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?
In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann...
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight an...
Author Jack Zipes argues that, despite the consumerisation of children, children's literature, fairy tales and storytelling possess a uniquely powerful capacity to resist the relentless progress of negative trends in culture. He also argues that these tales risk losing their power if they are diluted by commercialism and merchandising.
Author Jack Zipes argues that, despite the consumerisation of children, children's literature, fairy tales and storytelling possess a uniquely powerfu...
