fairytales

By nargis
  • Period: 7000 BCE to 1 BCE

    Ancient

  • 560 BCE

    Aesop’s Fables

    Greece
    Written by a former Greek slave
    The fables, numbering 725, were originally told from person-to-person as much for entertainment purposes but largely as a means for relaying or teaching a moral or lesson.
  • Period: 1 CE to 1500

    medieval

  • 800

    Aladdin (1001 Arabian Nights)

    China
    Books by Greg Couch (Author of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp)
    When street rat Aladdin frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp and for Princess Jasmine. But can Aladdin save Princess Jasmine and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be?
  • 1500

    snow white

    snow white
    Germany
    Jacob Grimm
    In the Brothers Grimm version, the evil queen stepmother asks a hunter to take Snow White into the forest and kill her (this also happens in the Disney movie). He can't kill Snow White, so brings back a boar's lungs and liver instead.
  • Period: 1500 to

    modem

  • Pocahontas

    England
    Glen Keane
    Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial ... At the time Pocahontas was born, it was common for Powhatan Native Americans to be given several personal names, have more than one name

  • Cinderella

    Cinderella
    France
    Charles Perrault
    One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in French by Charles Perrault in 1697
    After her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella (Lily James) finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and stepsisters, who reduce her to scullery maid. Despite her circumstances, she refuses to despair.

  • Beauty & The Beast

    Beauty & The Beast
    American
    written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
    An arrogant young prince and his castle's servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong village girl Belle enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs.

  • The little mermaid

    Denmark
    Hans Christian Andersen
    The little mermaid is about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul.

  • The Snow Queen

    Denmark
    by Hans Christian Andersen
    The story centers on the struggle between good and evil as taken on by a little boy and girl, Gerda and Kay.

  • The Frog King

    New Orleans, Louisiana
    Adam Davies
    "The Frog Prince or Iron Henry German Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich literally The Frog King or The Iron Heinrich is a fairy tale best known through the Brothers Grimm's written version traditionally it is the first story in their collection.