Today is: Tell A Fairy Tale Day
"Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," and "Jack and the Beanstalk" are three stories likely told to you or read to you while you were growing up. They are all fairy tales, a genre of literature and form of a folk tale with fantastical and magical events and characters. Common characters include elves, witches, fairies, trolls, dragons, dwarfs, giants, goblins, gnomes, talking animals, mermaids, unicorns, and princes and princesses.
Fairy tales are usually rather short, and they often begin with the phrase "once upon a time," clueing in readers that their settings are places that can no longer be found. These stories abound on Tell a Fairy Tale Day, which is dedicated to reading, telling, and listening to fairy tales.
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