Print resources:

Bruno Bettelheim. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage, 1977.
K.M. Briggs. Introduction to British Folktales.  New York: Pantheon, 1977.
----------.  The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge, 1967
Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
John Cech.  “Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales and Stories: Secrets, Swans and Shadows.”  In Perry Nodelman, Touchstones.  Volume II.  Metuchen, NJ: ChLA.  14-23.
Jerome W.  Clinton. "Madness and Cure in the Thousand and One Nights."  In Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Ed., Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.  Pp. 35-51.
N.J. Dawood. Introduction to Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
Linda Degh "Grimms' Household Tales and Its Place in the Household: The Social Relevance of a Controversial Classic" In Metzger and Mommsen.  21-53.
Kay Unruh DesRoches.  “Asbjornsen and Moe’s Norwegian Folktales: Voice and Vision.”  In Perry Nodelman, Touchstones.  Volume II.  Metuchen, NJ: ChLA.  24-40.
Alan Dundes,  Ed.Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
John M. Ellis. One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales.  Chicago: UofC Press, 1983.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.  New York: Ballantine, 1992.
James Gellert.  “The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault: Acute Logic and Gallic Wit.”  In Perry Nodelman, Touchstones.  Volume II.  Metuchen, NJ: ChLA.   201-12.
Haddawy. Introduction to The Arabian Nights.
----------.  Introduction to The Arabian Nights II.
Hamori, Andras.  On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
Betsy Hearne. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale.  Chicago: U of Chi Press, 1989.
Robert Irwin. The Arabian Nights: A Companion.  London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1994.
Max Lüthi.  The European Folktale: Form and Nature.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Mack, et. al. Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Volume 1.
Cornelia Meigs, Anne Thaxter Eaton, Elizabeth Nesbitt, and Ruth Hill Viguers. A Critical history of Children's Literature.  Revised Edition.  London: Macmillan, 1969.
Neil Phillip.  Introduction to The Cinderella Story.  London: Penguin, 1989
David Pinault. Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights.  Studies in Arabic Literature 15, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992.
Joan Roll-Hansen. Introduction to A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway. Oslo: Tokens of Norway, 1962.
John Warren Stewig.  “Joseph Jacobs’ English Fairy Tales: A Legacy for Today.”  In Perry Nodelman, Touchstones.  Volume II.  Metuchen, NJ: ChLA. 128-39.
Reinbert Tabbert and Kristin Wardetzky.  “On the Success of Children’s Books and Fairy Tales: A Comparative View of Impact Theory and Reception Research.”  Lion and Unicorn 19. 1 (June 1995) 1-19.
Maria Tatar. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales.  New York: Norton, 2002.
---------. Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Joyce Thomas.  “The Tales of the Brothers Grimm: In the Black Forest.”  In Perry Nodelman, Touchstones.  Volume II.  Metuchen, NJ: ChLA. 104-17.
J.R.R.Tolkien. "On Fairy-Stories" In Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Ed. C.S. Lewis.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1966.  38-89
Jack Zipes. Afterword to Arabian Nights. New York: Signet, 1991.
----------.  Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales.  New York: Methuen, 1979.
----------.  Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization.  NY: Wildman, 1983.
----------.  Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Osford University Press.

Web resources:

The Arabian Nights resource Center. http://www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/arabian.htm
The Arabian Nights - includes Beaumont article. http://www.arabiannights.org/index2.html
Arabian Nights study guide. http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/eng251/arabstudy.htm

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