The following are a selection of fairy tale resources grouped by category. Though by no means comprehensive, these titles highlight some of the primary resources in fairy tale studies.
Blogs
SurLaLune Fairy Tales Blog
Once Upon a Blog: Fairy Tale News
Once Upon a Here and Now
Folk and Fairy
Breezes from Wonderland
The Faery Folklorist
Saints and Spinners: A Fairy Tale Blog
Youth in Motion


Scholarship
Jack Zipes is one of the preeminent scholars in fairy tale and folklore studies. Don’t Bet on the Prince, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, and The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World are among his numerous landmark studies on this subject of the cultural evolution and significance of fairy tales and their function within society. He has also translated the complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Bruno Bettleheim was a prolific writer and renowned child psychologist. The Uses of Enchantment (1976), a Freudian analysis of fairy tales, won the Critic’s Choice Prize for criticism in 1976 and the National Book Award for Contemporary Thought in 1977. The Uses of Enchantment explores the emotional and symbolic nature of fairy tales and focuses on the importance of their sometimes dark nature to children’s psycho-social development.
Marie-Louise von Franz, also a renowned writer and Jungian psychologist, has written extensively on the fairy tale. Her substantial contributions to fairy tale studies include The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, and The Feminine in Fairy Tales. Much of her work explores the themes and characters of fairy tales via archetypal psychology. She also founded the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
Television
Once Upon a Time: a new tv series on ABC loosely based on classic fairy tales but set in the present day. The show stars Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan and includes numerous fairy tale characters such as Jiminy Cricket, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin.
Grimm: a new tv series on NBC promoted as a “dark fantasy” where a homicide detective, (a descendant of the Grimms), fights to save the world from the dark, fantastical creatures inspired by classic Grimms fairy tales.
Neverland: a 2011 miniseries aired by Syfy and promoted as a prequel to and fantastical retelling of Barrie’s Peter Pan story.
Text Resources
SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Search the Baldwin Libraries Digital Collections
UPitt’s collection of Grimms’s Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Anderson’s Tales
More Grimms Tales
The Little Red Riding Hood Project
Jack and Beanstalk/Jack the Giant Killer Project
The Cinderella Project
Cinderella Stories: Versions of the Popular Tale
Fractured Fairy Tales
YouTube Clips
The Snow Queen
The Little Match Girl
Grimms Fairy Tale Classics
The Brave Tin Soldier
Mickey and Minnie: Hansel and Gretel
Fractured Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel
Disney Tribute to Anderson
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Brothers Grimm

University of Pittsburgh’s Brothers Grimm Homepage
Online Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Grimm’s Household Stories, 1896.
Baldwin Library
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