[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students pretend they are the director and design a costume for Puck; they brief the designer as to how to create it and then brief the actor as to how to play the part. An example and...

This site takes a look at the Fairy Penguin, the smallest of all the penguins and found in warmer waters along the shores of Southern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Content includes a focus on this penguin's physical...

[Free Registration/Login Required] After introducing the concept of fantasy within fairy tales, teachers lead class in finding examples of fantasy elements in the story Little Red Riding Hood. Following this model, students work...

This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...

Provides photograph and a fact card about the pink fairy armadillo. Discusses physical characteristics, where they are found, diet, mating and reproduction, locomotion, and population status.

For this lesson plan, students will consider Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.

This article describes how termites create circular patterns of bare soil known as "fairy circles" in the grasslands of southern Africa.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that fairy tales start with "Once upon a time" and have a happy ending.

This magazine article explains the difference between the older fairy tales like the Three Little Pigs and how that fairy tale would be changed to teach a different lesson today.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Pink Fairy Book, a book from Andrew Lang's early 1900's series, "The Fairy Books of Many Colors," and also called, "The Colored Fairy Books" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the fairy tale collection, The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Illustrated collection of fairy tales that includes Jack and the Beanstalk, Henny-Penny, The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, this also includes a very helpful Notes section that advanced readers will want to check out. While some of...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Red Fairy Book, a book from Andrew Lang's early 1900's series, "The Fairy Books of Many Colors," and also called, "The Colored Fairy Books" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the children's book, The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Real Fairy Folks or Fairy Land of Chemistry by Ludy Rider Meyer (1887), a fantasy novel with accurate chemistry information.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the children's book, The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Mother Goose's Fairy Tales by E.H. Corbould, et al (c1887), a collection of illustrated fairy tales.

A scanned copy of the 1856 publication of German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, a fairy tale book for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Fairies: A Child's Song by William Allingham, a picture book fairy poem/song.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Fairy Horn by Spenser Theyre-Smith, a picture book fairy tale.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Fairy Tale Books: The History of Whittington by Andrew Lang (1890), a collection of fairy tales and short stories.

After reading Bubba, The Cowboy Prince by Helen Ketteman, the writer will first choose a fairy tale that he/she is very familiar with. Next, he/she will choose a completely different setting (time and place) for their story. The writer...

A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Fairy Tales Far and Near by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, a book of fairy tales for children.

A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Favorite Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, a collection of fairy tales for children.