If you're looking for something new to read with your kids, these modern fairy tales are worth adding to your home library.

Well, those critics will have to eat their words, because Cinderella gave the fairy tale a lot more depth ... yet simultaneously contemporary, the award-winning actress is a villain you want ...

Taking a classic story and making a new stage adaptation is a challenging task, but it was one that area playwright Jennifer Kirkeby was more than willing to take. Kirkeby’s latest piece, ...

The imagined worlds of fairy tales offer not only entertainment for children but also reflections on contemporary times. Polish writers such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Bolesław Prus, and ...

Steve Graue Classic characters confront the modern world in Reina Hardy’s Glassheart, a contemporary retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.” Glassheart situates the Beast (Mark Pracht), still ...

The books in this series are written by contemporary children's authors and are based on classic fables and folk and fairy tales. The series is designed to encourage children to read and develop a ...

The best way — perhaps the only way — to read Lucy Rose’s beautiful, terrifying first novel, “The Lamb,” is as a modern fairy tale. Still, anyone expecting the anodyne comforts and ...

On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of elementary school kids gathered in a gymnasium for a theatrical interpretation of one ...

Emerson’s Media Art Gallery opened a new multi-media exhibition: “Entire Nations are Built on Fairy Tales.” The exhibition ...