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#FairyTaleTuesday: 1952's HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, while never meant for awards for historical accuracy, does have fun depicting various fairy tales through ballet. But did you know they were originally meant to be done in Disney animation?

And, to get away from the focus on snow and cold for a bit - the story of Urashima Tarō features four fabulous rooms in the Dragon God's palace, containing the four seasons and their associated weather:

And everyone knows about Tim Burton's Christmas-themed movies, but has everyone seen some of his Christmas artwork from his MoMA exhibit?

A possibly true folk tale holds that Empress Matilda escaped Oxford Castle on a snowy December, 1142, by fleeing across the frozen Thames in white during the Anarchy.

#FairyTaleTuesday: "Snow-White and Rose-Red" are a charming and refreshingly happy pair of siblings from the Brothers Grimm:

As sour as I am on revisionist takes these days, two twists on "The Three Little Pigs" were among my favorite picture books as a kid:

#FairyTaleTuesday: Has any mythology or folklore, Norse or otherwise, not benefitted from Arthur Rackham's illustrations?

#FairyTaleTuesday: Angela Carter wrote a wonderfully creepy depiction of vampirism with "The Lady of the House of Love."

The second, "The Tiger's Bride," goes down a different road, with a darker beauty/beast relationship, a far worse father figure, and a new twist on the ending.

#FairyTaleTuesday It's not set long ago and far away, but I count CORALINE as a fairy tale, and love it whether it's a book in my hands or a film on my screen. As far as kid heroines go for fairy stories, she's one tough cookie.