The sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and the sins of the sons are visited on their siblings in the dour “Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles.” Some stark and startling visual imagery is ...

I was never very good at science. Mostly because it was taught to me the same way math was taught to me: It wasn’t. I mean it was, technically. But not in a way that inspired me or held my interest ...

Elizabeth Lim, the author of “Six Crimson Cranes,” recommends some of her favorite retellings of classic fairy tales. By Elizabeth Lim Fairy tales made me fall in love with reading. When I was a kid, ...

Precocious Elsa, a sharp-witted seven-year-old, has only one friend, her protective, eccentric Granny, who tells her nightly bedtime fairy tales in their small apartment in the Land of Almost-Awake.

In Meghan Cox Gurdon’s weekend column “Old Stories Made New—and Woke” (Children’s Books, Nov. 6), she reviews Soman Chainani’s book “Beasts and Beauty,” which rewrites classic fairy tales to “suit ...

A winner of seven Ariels at the 2001 Mexican Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor, and best original screenplay, this feature brims with magnificent landscapes—wind-sculpted canyons and ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. A strange and often compelling film of the magical realism school in which elements of the fantastic, magical and/or supernatural ...