Spinning Straw Into Gold: Resources

My Bookshelf

Spinning Straw into Gold by Joan Gould

Fairy Tale as Myth by Jack Zipes

The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Shadow of the Bear by Regina Doman

Black as Night by Regina Doman

The Poets' Grimm edited by Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson

Tales before Tolkien edited by Douglas A. Anderson

Phantastes by George MacDonald

Smith of Wooten Major by J.R.R. Tolkien

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

'Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

White as Snow by Tanith Lee

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

The Odyssey by Homer

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

{more to come}

Primary Sources

The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

The Folk Keeper by Franny Billinglsey

The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

{more to come}