What a delicious jolt nostalgia can deliver! There are moments in adulthood when we catch sight of something we’d forgotten we loved as children, and it feels as though a gong has been struck in our ...

When you look at a child's bookshelf, you expect to see colorful picture books with imaginary animals, classic chapter books about mice riding off on motorcycles, and age-old fairy tales retold in new ...

Author Erik Forrest Jackson explains how kids (and their parents!) will get a kick out of this Muppets version of the literary classics There’s a fun way for elementary school kids (and parents!) to ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Fairy tales just don’t die. They just get rebooted for new ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Parents who shun traditional fairy tales in favour of 'more politically correct' modern books are missing vital chances to teach their children a moral code of life, an expert has claimed. Increasing ...

An armour-clad Snow White wages war against her wicked stepmom. Hansel and Gretel are witch-killing bounty hunters. Little Red Riding Hood has undergone a Twilight makeover and is torn between two men ...

When we were kids, "fairy tales" were the cutesy purview of Disney movies and children's books. Princesses sang to animals and princes gallivanted around with their privilege wildly unchecked. Fairy ...

‘Grapes as large as eggs, each of them ripe and sweet and juicy . . . baby cream cheeses smoother than velvet . . . spicy sausages . . . melting beefsteaks ...