art: SAM FALCONER. Sources ... story come to be known as “Beauty and the Beast” in the U.S. and “The Fairy Serpent” in China? As Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm collected Germanic folktales ...

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 ...

Sylvain Sonnet/Corbis Today’s Google Doodle honoree, Charles Perrault, is credited with helping invent the modern fairy ... French folk tales and elevated them into a courtly art form.