Books: Fairytales: What Counts?

Hello, Fairies.

I know we kind of already talked about this in our Difference Between Fairy Tale, Folktale, etc. post, but, what really counts as a fairy tale? We know Grimm's Fairy Tales are fairy tales, but they were originally called Children's and Household Tales. What about poems, like Mother Goose? Do those count as fairy tales? And what about modern-day retellings of fairy tales? They present a wonderful variety of story-telling techniques, and are full of life.

Many of the original fairy tales are full of something amazing, something you can't quite put your finger on, like that elusive smell that you know reminds you of something wonderful from your childhood, but you can never quite remember it, or that story you read for English class you could swear you've read before, but you're quite sure you couldn't have.

For, that is what fairy tales do to you, and the only way you know, unquestionably that a story is a fairy tale, a true fairy tale, is if it makes you believe.

Spruce Nogard

Attributions: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1937994317/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478313622&sr=1-7&keywords=grimm%27s+fairy+tales