Inspired by Charlotte’s Library, I thought I’d make an index of my reviews and other posts related to folklore and fairy tales.  This page is a work in progress — please feel free to comment with corrections or suggestions (just don’t be a troll or you’ll be trampled by billy goats).

The links are organized by SUBJECT, REGION, and SPECIFIC TALE (i.e. Beauty and the Beast stories, Arabian Nights stories, etc).

I also highly recommend the SurLaLune Fairy Tales site — 49 annotated tales + discussion of each story’s development, similar tales from around the world, contemporary re-tellings, influences on/by pop culture, etc.

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SUBJECTS:

Anthologies and Collections

• Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales, by Angela Carter
• The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
• The Cat and the Fiddle, by Jackie Morris, illus.
• Cloaked in Red, by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Complete Fairy Tales, by Charles Perrault
• Fable Comics, ed. Chris Duffy
• Fairy Tale Comics, ed. Chris Duffy
• Fairy Tale Feasts, by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple
• Gražiausios Vaikystės Pasakos (The Loveliest Childhood Tales), by Ramutė Prapiestienė
• How a Mother Weaned Her Girl From Fairy Tales, by Kate Bernheimer
• Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts, by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple
• The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
• Nemuno Šalies Pasakos (Tales from the Land of the Nemunas), by Petras Cvirka
• Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk, by Jane Yolen
• Nursery Rhyme Comics, ed. Chris Duffy
• Passion and Poison: Tales of Shape-shifters, Ghosts, and Spirited Women, by Janice Del Negro
• Red as Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, by Tanith Lee
• Red Ridin’ In the Hood and Other Cuentos, by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
• So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction (parts one, two, and three)
• The Rumplestiltskin Problem, by Vivian Vande Velde
• Twisted Fairy Tales, by Maura McHugh
• Twisted Myths, by Maura McHugh
• The Wizard’s Cookbook and Dessert Cookbook, by Aurélia Beaupommier
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• Datlow/Windling anthologies
  • The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
  • Black Thorn, White Rose
  • Black Swan, White Raven
  • Black Heart, Ivory Bones
  • Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
  • The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
  • The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
  • Silver Birch, Blood Moon
  • Swan Sister
  • Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales,
  • A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
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• Poetry
  • Poisoned Apples: Tales for You, My Pretty, by Christine Heppermann
  • Transformations, by Anne Sexton (posted @ Same Story)

Changelings

• The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
• The October Daye series, by Seanan McGuire (in this world, “changelings” are people who are part faerie and part human)

Deities

• The Captive, by Scott O’Dell (Mayan god Kukulcán)
• Cybele’s Secret, by Juliet Marillier (Anatolian earth goddess)
• “The Fire New Year” (Japanese god Miruku)

Mermaids

• Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• California MerCon (2020)
• “Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea,” by Seanan McGuire
• The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, et al.
• Drown: a Twisted Take on the Classic Fairy Tale, by Esther Dalseno
• Keeper, by Kathi Appelt
• Lost Voices trilogy, by Sarah Porter
• My Sister Sif, by Ruth Park
• Neptune Rising, by Jane Yolen
• One Salt Sea, by Seanan McGuire
• Sea Change, by Aimee Friedman
• Undine, by Penni Russon
• The Water Mirror, by Kai Meyer

• Selkies
  • The Folk Keeper, by Franny Billingsley
  • The Great Selkie Post
  • Home from the Sea, by Mercedes Lackey
  • In Sea-Salt Tears & Forbid the Sea, by Seanan McGuire
  • Neptune Rising, by Jane Yolen
  • One Salt Sea, by Seanan McGuire
  • Seal Child, by Sylvia Peck
  • Seal Song, by Andrea Spalding
  • Seven Tears at High Tide, by C.B. Lee
  • Tides, by Betsy Cornwell
  • The Turning, by Emily Whitman
  • The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire

Misc./Mash-ups/Medleys.

• Castle Waiting: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, by Linda Medley
• The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (One and Two, Three and Four), by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne Valente
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne Valente
• The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste
• Marshland, by Gareth E. Rees
• Pure Dead Brilliant, by Debi Gliori
• The Sandman comics, by Neil Gaiman
• Shake dem Halloween Bones, by W. Nikola-Lisa

Portals

• In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire
• The Wayward Children series 1-3 & 5, by Seanan McGuire

Unicorns

• Black Unicorn, by Tanith Lee
• The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
• The Unicorn Chronicles, by Bruce Coville

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REGIONS:

Africa

• Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria)
• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, by Eric A. Kimmel (West African/Caribbean)
• Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes (African water spirit Mami Wata)
• The Magic Gourd, by Baba Wagué Diakité (Mali)

Asia

• “The Fire New Year” (Okinawa, Japan)
• Lon Po Po: a Red-Riding Hood Story From China, by Ed Young
• Maneki Neko: Tales of the Beckoning Cat (Japan)
• Sita’s Ramayana, by Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar (India)
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin (China)

Australia & Oceania

• My Sister Sif, by Ruth Park (South Pacific islands)
• The Whale Rider, by Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand)

Caribbean

• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, by Eric A. Kimmel
• The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste
• The Last Warner Woman, by Kei Miller (Jamaica)

Europe

• Big Pumpkin, by Erica Silverman (based on a Russian tale)
• Cybele’s Secret, by Juliet Marillier (Anatolia, Grimm, Romania)
• Datlow/Windling anthologies 1, 2
• Drown: a Twisted Take on the Classic Fairy Tale, by Esther Dalseno (Denmark)
• Lucy Dove, by Janice Del Negro (Scotland)
• Tides, by Betsy Cornwell (Irish selkie lore)
• Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Grimm)
• Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier (Grimm, Romania)
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• Lithuania
  • Eglė žalčių karalienė (Eglė the Queen of Serpents)
  • Gražiausios Vaikystės Pasakos (The Loveliest Childhood Tales), by Ramutė Prapiestienė
  • Laumelė (The Fairy), by Marija Baranauskienė
  • Nemuno Šalies Pasakos (Tales from the Land of the Nemunas), by Petras Cvirka
  • Vilniaus Legenda (The Legend of Vilnius), by Dainius Juozėnas

Latin America

• Adelita: a Mexican Cinderella Story, by Tomie dePaola
• The Captive, by Scott O’Dell (Mayan mythology)
• Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, by Duncan Tonatiuh (Aztec mythology blended with European Catholic traditions)

Middle East

• Hosni the Dreamer, by Ehud Ben-Ezer (Arabian)
• Nadia the Willful, by Sue Alexander

North America

• Passion and Poison: Tales of Shape-shifters, Ghosts, and Spirited Women, by Janice Del Negro (one New England tale)
• The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt (the Caddo people of Eastern Texas)

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SPECIFIC TALES:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

• Fantastic Alice, ed. Margaret Weis
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne Valente
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne Valente

The Arabian Nights

• Nightbooks, by J. A. White

Baba Yaga

• Vassa In the Night, by Sarah Porter

Bearskin

• Marshland, by Gareth E. Rees

Beauty and the Beast

• “Beauty and the Beast,” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont
• Beauty and the Beast, by Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
• “Cupid and Psyche,” by Apuleius
• Eglė žalčių karalienė (Eglė, Queen of Serpents)
• “Mr. Lyon,” by Angela Carter
• “The Tiger’s Bride,” by Angela Carter

Bluebeard

• “The Bloody Chamber,” by Angela Carter
• “Bluebeard,” by Charles Perrault
• “Bluebeard’s Egg,” by Margaret Atwood
• “Fitcher’s Bird,” by the Brothers Grimm
• “The Virgin Mary’s Child,” by the Brothers Grimm

Cinderella

• Adelita: a Mexican Cinderella Story, by Tomie dePaola
• Cinder Hazel: The Cinderella of Halloween, by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
• Cinderella Skeleton, by Robert D. San Souci
• Cinders: a Chicken Cinderella, by Jan Brett
• Pumpkin Pounder, by Laura Lovely

Diamonds and Toads

• Jennifer Murdley’s Toad, by Bruce Coville

The Fire New Year

The Fisherman and His Wife

• The Fisherman and His Wife, by Rosemary Wells

The Frog Prince

• Eglė žalčių karalienė (Eglė, Queen of Serpents)
• Jennifer Murdley’s Toad, by Bruce Coville
• Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier

The Giant Turnip

• Big Pumpkin, by Erica Silverman

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

• The Three Bears’ Halloween, by Kathy Duval

The Goose Girl

• The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale

Hansel and Gretel

• Nightbooks, by J. A. White
• A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz

Jack and the Beanstalk

• Waynetta and the Cornstalk: a Texas Fairy Tale, by Helen Ketteman

The Little Mermaid

• Drown: a Twisted Take on the Classic Fairy Tale, by Esther Dalseno
• Lost Voices trilogy, by Sarah Porter
• The Water Mirror, by Kai Meyer

The Little Red Hen

• The Little Green Witch, by Barbara Barbieri McGrath

Little Red Riding Hood

• Cloaked in Red, by Vivian Vande Velde
• “The Company of Wolves,” by Angela Carter
• “Little Red Cap,” by the Brothers Grimm
• “Little Red Riding Hood,” by Charles Perrault
• Lon Po Po: a Red-Riding Hood Story From China, by Ed Young
• Petite Rouge: a Cajun Red Riding Hood, by Mike Artell
• “The Red Path,” by Jim C. Hines
• “Wolfland,” by Tanith Lee

Maneki Neko: the tale of the beckoning cat

The Ramayana

• Sita’s Ramayana, by Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar

Rapunzel

• Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon and Dean Hale
• Sugar Cane: a Caribbean Rapunzel, by Patricia Storace

Rumpelstiltskin

• The Rumplestiltskin Problem, by Vivian Vande Velde

Sleeping Beauty

• The Sleeper and the Spindle, by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

The Snow Queen

• Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu

Snow White

• The Sleeper and the Spindle, by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

• Cybele’s Secret and Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne Valente
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne Valente