Ÿ Students in Elise Diaz's fifth grade class at O'Plaine School in Gurnee asked, “What is the difference between a folk tale, fairy tale, legend, myth, and a fable?” Folk tales, like the story of Paul ...

Folk tales, fables and fairy tales ... do you know the difference? Fairview/Miss Jewell Elementary first graders in teachers Jamie King’s and Brandy Oliveras’ class are reading fairy tales, fables & ...

Not surprisingly, fairy-tales and fables make excellent operatic source material. Composers from the Romantic and post-Romantic periods with a knack for a larger-than-life compositional style seem to ...

Animal tales and fables have traveled around the world. Two tales, the “Lion in the Well” and the “Stickfast,” motif have appeared in Uncle Remus tales as well as in many other versions around the ...

More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...