SUR LA LUNE FAIRY TALES - With 47 annotated fairy tales, modern interpretations, fairy tale illustration gallery, fairy tale music page, and forum, Sur La Lune Fairy Tales is one of the most comprehensive fairy tale sites around. Created by Heidi Anne Heiner, it’s not only a wonderful resource, but a joy to read around.
THE CINDERELLA PROJECT - The brainchild of Michael Salda, a fistful of English graduate students, and the University of Missouri, The Cinderella Project is a text and image archive of English versions of Cinderella. Its popularity has led Salda and his crack team to create similar archives for Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Jack the Giant-Killer.
ART PASSIONS - A trove of fairy tale illustrations by the likes of Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, and Arthur Rackham; pages devoted to Enchanted Cats, and e-cards. Need I say more?
PROJECT GUTENBERG - An online archive of texts in the free domain, Project Gutenberg is a great place to leaf around on a rainy day. With downloadable versions of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, The Brothers Grimm, and more, it’s easy to catch up on your reading.
INTERNET SACRED TEXTS ARCHIVE - The largest freely available archive online, Sacred Texts is mostly about religion and religious tolerance. But nestled amongst its index-by-place are gems, such as Joseph Jacobs’ English Fairy Tales, Celtic Folklore, and Gypsy Folktales, by Frances Hindes Groome.
FAIRY TALES: BIRTH OF A GENRE - A virtual exhibition of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, this is an interactive site illustrating the birth of fairy tales as a genre through imagery. Other sections of the site include fairy tales and their role in the family, the “marvellous universe”, the ordeal or journey often involved in a tale, and fairy tales in everyday life.
FAIRY TALES BY KEVIN BROOKS - Part of Penguin’s “We Tell Stories” project, this is an interactive fairy tale site. Users enter pertinent information and make choose your own adventure style choices to create a fairy tale of their own. Take a moment to browse around the other “We Tell Stories” sites, too–they’re all very interesting explorations of story telling and reading in the technological age.
THE SKY IS FALLING! MASS HYSTERIA IN FOLKTALE TYPES 20C AND 2033 - Recently created, this is a reworked WordPress page about end of the world tales. An introduction to the page, its purpose, and tale type is first; comparisons and tale versions are also available.
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY ELECTRONIC TEXTS - From D.L. Ashliman, a folklorist and researcher, comes this wonderful electronic library. Check out the other pages, too: Folk Links; Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas; and Germany Discovers America.
