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The Oxford companion to fairy tales
The People Could Fly
Folk tales of Gujarat
Folktales from Africa
Risking enchantment
Ella's big chance
Outfoxing fear
Fairy tales and the art of subversion
Grimm Tales
A Treasury of North American Folktales
King Grisly-Beard King Grisly-Beard
The annotated classic fairy tales
The storyteller's sourcebook
The girl who married a ghost and other tales from Nigeria
Off with their heads!
Strange and Secret Peoples
The Moral of the Story
The fairy tale
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed
The wonder child : & other Jewish fairy tales
Stepmother
Postmodern fairy tales
Disenchantments
Leaves from the garden of Eden : one hundred classic Jewish tales
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 16901715
Spells of enchantment
Serbian fairy tales
Dickens and the invisible world
Mr. Wolf's Pancakes
Why Fairy Tales Stick
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