Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. Over four days last summer, ...

A creature once immortalized in fairy tales and garden ponds across Britain is quietly disappearing, according to the Guardian. The common toad — a squat, warty amphibian — is now becoming alarmingly ...

Once upon a time, a king’s beautiful wife was on her deathbed, and had her husband promise not to remarry unless he found someone just as pretty as her, and with such golden hair as she had. No one in ...

Shrek has a multitude of characters, and the biggest group of them being the fairy tale creatures. The list is as follows: Pinocchio, Gingy/Sugarplum Fairy, Big Bad Wolf, Ugly Duckling, Humpty Dumpty, ...