By Maria Tatar
Illustrated by Ivan Bilibin, Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham

Maria Tatar's Annotated Classic Fairy Tales celebrates the powerful cultural legacy of fairy tales and provides an invaluable storytelling archive for children and adults alike. The volume includes twenty-six stories, along with annotations and sumptuous images of 300 paintings and drawings in full color throughout.

By Maria Tatar

Drawing from the authoritative version first published in 1857, Tatar, a leading scholar in the field of folklore and children's literature, has gathered over forty Grimm stories, judiciously selecting tales that both resonate with a modern audience and reveal the broad thematic range of the Grimm canon.

By Maria Tatar

The Grimm Reader, featuring landmark introductions by A.S. Byatt and Maria Tatar, celebrates the radiant cultural legacy of stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - tales that have enchanted children and adults alike for generations. Even after two hundred years, the tales gathered by the Grimms continue to have an extraordinary global reach. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, for all their simplicity, have the power to draw us into a world of words and to transform us as we read. Containing some of the most enduring tales found in world literature, this collection will introduce readers to the sorcery of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm.

By Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar's The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen presents the classic stories of the great Danish author and celebrates his enduring appeal to children and their parents. The volume includes twenty-four of Andersen's most cherished fairytales, hundreds of annotations drawing on original sources and the newest scholarship to explore the literary, historical and psychological importance of the stories, and over 150 paintings and illustrations from such beloved illustrators as Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham.

By Maria Tatar

Tatar leads readers on a fascinating and timely exploration of how books cast powerful spells on young readers. For them, words create other worlds: they lead the way through the wardrobe to the snow-covered slopes of Narnia; open the gate to E.B. White's barnyard, where pigs and spiders talk; and direct us to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, from which the train departs for Hogwarts. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim's landmark Uses of Enchantment, this book is a compelling return to the complex world of childhood and its literature. In reading it, we will recall our own adventures as enchanted hunters, always searching for that next doorway or rabbit hole into the realm of possibility.