Tale Of Tales

Italian director Matteo Garrone made his name with realist mob movie Gomorrah, but for his new film he turned to 17th century fairytales

Let's take a look at Snow White's glass coffin today. (by Paul Hey) (by Marianne Stokes) (by Tom Schamp) (I'm assuming the artist is Nevolina.) (by Charles Santore) This is my favorite-what a lovely palette! I've noticed that many of the illustrations have an owl in a tree. It may...

From rags to riches and beasts to beanstalks, these are the popular fairy tales that shape our happily ever afters

shelley duvall in faerie tale theatre

Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco’s magical images have that same dark quality that the Brother’s Grimm tales inspired in me as a young girl. There’s something a little haunting in the stories that is reflected in Recuenco’s images, maybe that’s what makes both the stories and these photographs so unforgettable. more....THE DAILY FRENCHIEMONOCOLE’S ARE CUTEThe magic …

Every evening, a girl, a boy, and an old technician get together in a small movie theater. Although the theater no longer seems to be operating, it is full of wonders. The three friends invent, drawn, dress up, and become characters in any story they feel like telling during one magical night when everything is possible. There are witches and fairies, powerful kings and stable boys, werewolves and beautiful, cruel ladies, cathedrals and sequins, cities of gold and dark forests, harmonies of…

There’s fierce competition out there, but I think Emily Hughes is the most exciting new artist making picture books today. Her first book Wild came out in 2013 and became an instant classic. …