Jack Zipes

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1986
  • Latest Book:
    October 2020
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

    Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960's. He has selected works by such gifted writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwoo...

  • Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales

    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT

    CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES

    Edited and translated by Jack Zipes

    A wonderful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authori...

  • Arabian Nights

  • Spells of Enchantment

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

    Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, Zipes uses the tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism and politics....

  • Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

    " Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideol...

  • The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight

  • Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

    Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activistsDeliberately transforming traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, political activists wrote the stories in this collection for  progressive yo...

  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

    From its ancient roots in the oral tradition to the postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale has retained its powerful hold over the cultural imagination of Europe and North America. Now The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales provides...



  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investi...

  • The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English

    Comprehensive and visually rich, this new Norton Anthology, in a beautiful slipcased gift edition, traces the remarkable innovation and enduring pleasures of children's literature.

    The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature celebrates the ri...

  • The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre

    Giuseppe Pitrè, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friends and scholars throughout the island of Sicily. A ...

  • Beauties, Beasts And Enchantments

    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT: CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES REVISED AND UPDATED A beautiful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast...

  • Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic French Fairy Tales

    "Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth". Arranged marriages, trials to win the princess, children lost in the woods, the transformation of humans into beasts, charms and curses, evil stepsisters, te...

  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale

    If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot r...

  • Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment

    BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENT: CLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES

    A beautiful new collection of 36 French fairy tales translated into English by renowned writer and authority on fairy tales, Jack Zipes. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty,...

  • The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales

    In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to un...

  • Creative Storytelling

    Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive story...

  • Grimm Legacies

    In Grimm Legacies , esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the e...



  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology rev...

  • Tales of Wonder

    The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales....

  • Workers' Tales

    A collection of political tales―first published in British workers’ magazines―selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen

    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by tradition...

  • Keedle, the Great: and All You've Ever Wanted to Know about Fascism

    In 1940, two young people decided to publish a strange book with the title Keedle to give Americans hope that the world can overcome dictatorships. To them, Keedle represented more than just Hitler. Indeed, Keedle represented all the dictators in the...

  • Yussuf the Ostrich

    What can a young ostrich called Yussuf teach us about war and friendship? This extraordinary animal helps defeat the Nazis in northern Africa during World War II to save his friends. He places loyalty and honor above everything else to resist the fas...

  • Honey on the Page

    Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the 'Reference' Section, given by the Association of Jewish LibrariesAn unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrationsWhile there has been a rec...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jack Zipes has published 25 books.

Jack Zipes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Honey on the Page, was published in October 2020.

The first book by Jack Zipes, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, was published in November 1986.

No. Jack Zipes does not write books in series.
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