Fairy Tales Around the World, a multi-part lesson plan from the team at EDSITEment, is perfect for elementary-level language arts and social studies classrooms. Here, readers will find six different lesson activities that are designed to help students learn to understand folk and fairy tales and appreciate them both as literature and for their depictions of "universal human emotions." In the first...

Throughout recorded human history, fairy tales have served as ways of inculcating moral value, teaching the young about their culture, and entertaining in the oral and written fashions. Heidi Anne Heiner, a children's librarian at the Burbank Public Library, has created this fine site devoted to providing 30 annotated fairy tales, a number of essays on the art, and the history of fairy tales. The...