A stimulating contribution to the critical literature of folk and fairy tales.
~Children's Literature Association Quarterly
The name Jack Zipes is synonymous with highly regarded and widely read anthologies and critiques of fairy tales.
~Choice
All libraries should acquire this new edition of one of the most influential texts in the field.
~Choice
Fairy Tales are a highly fashionable study today for literary scholars as well as folklorists, and another new book shows what a range of interest can be evoked by them. This time in Jack Zipes' interesting and vigorous study.
~Encounter
Zipes reveals the extraordinary breadth of his acquaintance with both recent and classic literature in the field of folk and fairytale research.
~Fabula
Zipes manages the impressive trick of communicating both detail and overview without simplifying either... the serious folklorist should should defnitely have this on his bookshelf.
~Fortean Times
Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives.
~Lore and Language
This problematic, provocative study will undoubtedly provide stimulating reading for many audiences.
~Romantic Movement
Zipes has written a stimulating and important contribution to the sociology of popular literature.
~Sociological Review
Places traditional tales in their socio-political, economic and cultural contexts.
~Teacher Librarian
Folklorists, educators and historians will particularly find this resource to be valuable. But educators and parents will also find Zipes's ideas intriguing.
~Elizabeth Herron, Folks and Fairies in Action (resourcecenterblog.wordpress.com)