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I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.

Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover or paperback.

Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Ashliman, D. L.  The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest : Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1997.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.org.
Accessed on May 8, 2002.

Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.  New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales. New York: DK Publishing, 1997.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale (Thomas D. Clark Lectures). Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover or paperback.

Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.

Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True. London: Routledge, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.


 

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Tales, Then and Now by Altman and  de Vos

Great Fairy Tale Tradition by Jack Zipes

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

Fairy Tales in the Ancient World by Anderson

The Witch Must Die by Sheldon Cashdan

The Folktale by Stith Thompson

 
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