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From the Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter and the Stars Wars trilogy, modern fairy tales highlight virtue, courage, leadership, and personal sacrifice.

A review of a collection of fairy tales by Francesca Lia Block, award winning young adult author of the Weetzie Bat series.

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Coraline director Henry Selick says the movie is nearly complete, and is on track for its February 6, 2009 release.

NBC-Universal's The Tale of Despereaux has its heart in the right place, but needless exposition hurts the story. 7/10.

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Ever Since Henry Littlefield's 1964 interpretations of the Wizard of Oz as political allegory were published, scholars have attempted to build on that analysis.

Are the Grimm's tales a historical resource for the study of oral storytelling culture? Or were fairy tales not really the products of the folk's imagination?