A guideline for helping students to write their own fairy tales. This is a fun activity that will help students to analyze a literary style and follow a pattern.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Sleeping Beauty Pantomime Toy Book by McLoughlin Bros. [1870], the fairy tale of "Sleeping Beauty" in verse.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, an illustrated fairy tale.

A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Sleeping Beauty, a fairy tale book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1880 publication Sleeping Beauty, a fairy tale book for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Three Fairy Princesses by Caroline Paterson (1890) a collection of fairy tales including Cinderella, Show White, and Sleeping Beauty.

French author Charles Perrault is often called the "father of the fairy tale" for his well known tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Cinderella." Cinderella is a famous folk tale, a story that...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book On the Way to Wonderland by Clara Doty Bates (c1885), a collection of illustrated nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

The translated texts of seven of Grimms' Fairy Tales, including "The Golden Goose," and "Sleeping Beauty." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual stories in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each story has downloadable...

Charles Perrault gave these tales "literary legitimacy" when he wrote them down and published them. Read about Perrault and read his stories that swept across England in the 1800s.