It's no secret that the beloved classic stories we listen to and movies we watch as children have morphed into the desensitized version they are today from something much more gruesome, more horrific, ...

Just in time for the Halloween season, Adam Gidwitz's "A Tale Dark & Grimm" gives some classic fairy tales an awesome reboot. Read an excerpt from the latest pick of Al’s Book Club for Kids. Just in ...

From classic fairy tales from authors such as The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson to new and original fairy tale books, you can introduce gentle versions of the stories to young children in ...

Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who decided not to read their children fairy tales. This fairy tale is too scary. This fairy tale is too offensive. Happy-all-the-time stories are ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Movies like "The Lion King," "Bambi," "Finding Nemo," and "Tarzan" all have moments that show the sudden death of certain characters. Everett Collection (4) It’s not easy being the mom or dad of a ...

Americans (if not most people in the world) tend to view the Grimms’ tales in all their forms—books, films, theater and popular culture—as American. Translated and adapted first by British writers, ...

From Cinderella to Rapunzel to the really gruesome tales you might not know – the myth and magic of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham 1909. Once upon a time – 200 ...

(RNS) The Grimm fairy tales you're familiar with include added Christian elements and nothing that would offend a middle-class religious sensibility. Now you can read the gruesome originals. (RNS) ...

The action-packed Snow White and the Huntsman is less a subversion of an old story than a return to one. In the first minute of the trailer for Snow White & the Huntsman, Charlize Theron's evil queen ...