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 the book in paperback.
Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient
World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcoverorpaperback.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to
Folktales in the English Language. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1987.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.
Bernheimer, Kate. Mirror, Mirror
On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales. New
York: Anchor Books, 1998.
Amazon.com: Buy the book inpaperback.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die.
New York: Basic, 1999.
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Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A
Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown.
New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales
and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
2002.
Amazon.com: Buy the book 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 the book in paperback.
Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San
Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Frank, Jeffrey and Diana Crone Frank. The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
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Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon
a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton:
Princeton University, 2001.
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The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary
of the English Language, 1990 Edition. New York: Lexicon
Publications, 1990.
Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive
Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.
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Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy
Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale.
Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Annotated Classic
Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy
Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation
of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
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Warner, Marina. From Beast
to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London:
Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock:
August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale
Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York:
W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion
to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Come True.
London: Routledge, 1998.
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