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⌈ Secret Post #2273 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a lot more into fairytales now than I was as a kid, but I knew Brave Little Tailor before my fairytale obsession.

Alice and Wendy aren't from fairytales. TBH, Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast shouldn't count as a fairytale, either, so the point that this discussion was even made should be moot.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course Alice/Wendy/Pinnochio/Wizard etc. aren't from fairy tales, but the director included Alice and the Wizard in his comment, so that's why I felt it was appropriate to reference them. He uses the term "fairy tale" very loosely.

[truxillogical]

Eh, at the library I work at, Alice in Wonder Land, the Oz books, and some versions of Peter Pan get put in the nonfic section with the rest of the fairy tales. There's a pretty broad definition of "fairy tales" (I mean, heck, take Fables).

[(Anonymous)]

I just assume Fables included what it did because there's only so many characters in Grimm/Perrault you can use without it coming across as so-and-so is a Mary Sue.

While I hate Jack of Fables, I love that it included all the American folk tales.

[truxillogical]

I kind of got a kick out of Sam, because that was one of my favorite stories when I was little. (It ends with buttered pancakes, what's not to love? Also, the version I had was pretty clear in the illustrations that the characters were Indian and the clothes were pretty too. Doesn't make it not problematic, but...well...)


I think there's just a pretty broad definition of "fairy tale." Like how people also refer to Star Wars as "modern myth." It may not be something that people use for religious purposes (usually), but it's a shared cultural story.

That said, it drives me and my fellow low-level workers insane that we have to keep fiction books with known writers in the nonfic section. Almost as irritating as having to keep the Doctor Seuss books under "G" and sorting the Castle books by title.

[charming_stranger]

Fairy tales are nonfiction? *scratches head*

[(Anonymous)]

('nother librarian here)

Yep, if they're English literature classics/written 100+ years ago, like Peter Pan or the Wizard of Oz. That makes them Literature, which puts them in the 800 class of the Dewey Decimal system. Nonfiction.

[truxillogical]

Oh, good, actual librarian weighing in. I'm just a circ worker; I stopped paying attention to the why's and wherefores shortly after it became apparent that nothing any of us say has any bearing on anything. Also, we use bisac, so...yeah. That.

(rassm frassm manager refusing to put MetaMaus in lit crit...)

[truxillogical]

They're considered folklore. Other things that also get classified by Dewey numbers include poetry, plays, and some very old literature (Beowulf, Homer, Chaucer).