The title "The Nutcracker" mainly refers to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's two-act classical ballet, which was inspired by an 1816 magical tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann. It narrates the tale of a young girl who ...

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

Associate Professor at The Hans Christian Andersen Centre, Principal Investigator of "Fairy Tales and Stories – The Digital Manuscript Edition", University of Southern Denmark Ane Grum-Schwensen ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Talk about happily ever after! This is a fairytale love story with Disneyland as one of the main characters. Richard and Cynthia Borrud chose Southern California and Disneyland for ...

You must have seen Labubu dolls – those furry, razor-toothed monsters that come in an array of colours and hang from every third person’s bag – though perhaps you do so less frequently now than in ...

Donald Trump suggested that high toy prices, caused by his tariffs, are acceptable as children do not need “37 dolls.” His spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, initially defended these remarks by stating ...

Shein scored a win Friday after a Paris court rejected a request from the French government to suspend the e-commerce giant’s platform over the sale of childlike sex dolls and other contentious ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Parents have been warned to be on the look out for counterfeit toys in the run-up to Christmas after trading standards officers seized a large number of "fake and unsafe" items. North Yorkshire ...

To celebrate D Home’s 25th anniversary, we’re revisiting 25 of our favorite stories from the past 25 years in weekly installments, with the help of D Home editors past and present. This week, we’re ...

Donald Trump in recent weeks has hosted a lavish Great Gatsby themed party at his Mar-a-Lago resort — complete with dancers spinning in giant cocktail glasses — touted his newly gilded toilet on ...

A Charleston, South Carolina shop owner is being heavily critcized on social media after a video surfaced in which she can be seen selling “Plantation Chilluns” dolls. Barbara Vickers owns a small ...