Fairy Tale and Classic Story Re-telling
- Beauty and the Beast (with Marianna Mayer) (1978) ISBN 1-58717-017-5
- East of the Sun & West of the Moon (1980)
- Favorite Tales from Grimm (Retold by Nancy Garden) (1982)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1984) ISBN 0-02-765340-4
- A Christmas Carol (1986) (retold with mice, originally by Charles Dickens) ISBN 0-02-730310-1
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1987)
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“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“We went to Ranelagh. It is a charming place; and the brilliancy of the lights, on my first entrance, made me almost think I was in some enchanted castle or fairy palace, for all looked like magic to me.”
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“With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
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“A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.”
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