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 & ...

Reading fairy tales can be essential to building the imagination of young readers. Folk tales, meanwhile, can help illuminate life lessons and teach children about traditions held by people all over ...

Once upon a time — in January and February, to be specific — the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts scheduled three events dealing with fables and fairy tales. First, the BackStage Book Club’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, "Fables" writer Bill Willingham took a myriad of worlds and created an existence of his own. In this world, one of the three little pigs has been beheaded in a scene reminiscent of ...