Out of his wisdom and experience, Dutch educator Daniel Udo de Haes
offers perspective on how to enrich and guide early childhood development
through fairy tales. Fairy tales and old folktales are rich in powerful images
that can seem out of place in the early childhood classroom. Drawing clear
analogies between the child’s journey into the school-age years and the
truths and lessons in fairy tale language, Udo de Haes’s discussion brings
educators and parents new understanding to the ways in which well-told
fairy tales prevent “impoverishment through the loss of something that
should still be a reality: the spiritual world in which the child should still
be living."

The World of Fairy Tales is a modern classic for professional development
and parent education, translated into English for the first time in this edition.