Books like Once upon a time by Roger Lancelyn Green

In Washington Irving’s classic, a superstitious schoolmaster falls ill after a chilling encounter with a headless horseman while courting a wealthy farmer’s daughter.

When thirteen‑year‑old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor in 1842, she discovers a village shrouded in a centuries‑old feud, a myth of a Moon Princess and a little white horse, and a destiny to restore peace to the valley.

A whimsical adventure for young readers featuring royalty, magical creatures, and dragons, blending humor and fantasy into a memorable tale.

Fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and stories to read aloud to your child.

A bright collection of classic fairy tales designed for young readers, each story paired with vivid illustrations.

Set in 1850, Amy flees Irish fairy‑tales for pragmatic life in London, where a chance encounter in a ballroom sparks an unexpected romance.

A bored boy’s day turns magical when three house‑building pigs, a red‑hooded girl, and other nursery characters tumble into his world.

Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich collection of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. She makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.