I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.
Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales,
Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood,
CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient
World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcoveror paperback.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to
Folktales in the English Language.New York: Greenwood
Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Bernheimer, Kate. Mirror, Mirror
On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. New
York: Anchor Books, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Vintage Books, 1975.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary
of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.
Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest :
Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary
Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The
Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne
State University, 1997.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die.
New York: Basic, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A
Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown.
New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Cirlot, J. E. Jack Sage, trans. A Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd ed. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.
Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales
and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
2002.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales.
New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New
Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood,
CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Dieckmann, Hans.Twice-Told Tales: The Psychological Use of Fairy Tales. Wilmette, IL: Chiron, 1986.
Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San
Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.
Heuscher, Julius E. A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. 2nd edition.
Jones, Alison. Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. New York: Larousse, 1995.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Lang, Andrew, ed. "Jack and the Beanstalk." The Red Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1890.)
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Leach, Maria. Funk & Wagnalls
Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New
York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.
Luthi, Max. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1976.
Matthews, Borg, trans. The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 1986.
Mueller, Gerhard O. W. "The Criminological Significance of the Grimms' Fairy Tales." Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Ruth Bottigheimer, editor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 217-227.
WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.
Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock:
August House, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts
and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New
American Library, 1989.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Methuen, 1983.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale
Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York:
W. W. Norton, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion
to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.
Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True.
London: Routledge, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy it in paperback.