Fairy tales boost a child's imagination and cultural literacy. Children imagination is a powerful and unique thing. They have great graving power, so they grasp everything very rapidly. read more
Fairy tales teach children that good will always triumph and, while this may not be true in aspects of the real world, the lesson is simple and important. Be the hero, not the villain. Learn to hope for better. read more
Fairy tales, of course, have been with us for a long time. Some of the earliest were written in a Neapolitan dialect by Giambattista Basile in Italy the early seventeenth century: Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (Neapolitan for "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"). read more
If you look around at recent movies and plays, many are reinventions of old epics and fairy tales or mere modern adaptations. read more