When the Fairy Princess returns to Kansas City this week 90 years after first appearing here, Olivia Pikul will assume the ...

The Fairy Princess is as much a part of the Kansas City holiday tradition as the Plaza lights, and has endured for more than 80 years. These days you can find her spreading holiday cheer at the Kansas ...

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, illus. by Christine Davenier. Little, Brown, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-04052-5 There's no doubt in Geraldine's mind that she ...

Geraldine, this book's redheaded heroine, may look like an ordinary girl, but she harbors no doubts about her magical royal status: “I FEEL it inside—a sparkling feeling of just KNOWING in my heart.” ...

One of this summer's biggest films is Angelina Jolie's Maleficent, an alternative take on Sleeping Beauty illuminating the memorable villain's humanity. Maleficent comes in the wake of this past ...

Esteemed fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien once said that fantasy was true literature meant to be read, and that dramatic presentations of fairy tales were nothing but intolerable misfortunes. "I have never ...