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One excited listener wrote: "I first clapped the phones to my ears, a recitation was in progress, and then a voice announced 'Now, children, listen to this lovely fairy story'."

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022

McKay notes that Tolkien emerged from World War I with a complex fairy story, unlike many of his literary peers who were writing about wastelands and darkness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Adams’s next leap forward came with the Disney hit “Enchanted,” which depends entirely on her to transform a high concept — a cartoon princess becomes human — into a delightful fairy story.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017

It is sometimes a little too folksy and fairy story, but contemporary strangeness wins out, and it is throughout something to behold.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2014

This is a story on the level of the fairy story.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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