"Anything Jack Zipes has to say about fairy tales instantly hits my MUST READ list. And in a world which is driven now more than ever by fantasy, fairy tales, and made-up realities, it is fascinating to realize that Once Upon a Time is really Once Upon All Times. This is a book whose time has really come." --Jane Yolen, award-winning author of more than 400 books for children and adults, including The Devil's Arithmetic "Jack Zipes, the most zestful, committed, and engaging advocate of fairy tales writing today, has been hunting high and low, from the British Library to junk shops, to draw from the shadows forgotten, censored, lost stories that serve the genre's intrinsic emancipatory and critical impulse. This lifelong quest to forge a new fairy tale corpus has come to fruition with Buried Treasures ; it offers a startling, alternative history of fairy tales, in which writers and artists explore the form with wit and insider knowledge to expose wrongs and make fresh hope possible. In times like these, their voices are much needed." --Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale "Fairy tales political? You bet. Jack Zipes prowls through works of authors in fascist Europe and beyond.

His biographies help us to understand tales and poems that attest to the possibilities of a humane world if characters dare to stand by what they know to be true and right. Compassion, illumination, hope are tools in the struggle; a stance germane today. What a treasure!"-- Donna Jo Napoli, author of In a Flash "Jack Zipes has worked tirelessly to discover and bring to our notice long-lost fairy tales written by people committed to justice, equality, and freedom. Here he shows why the fairy tale is a such a great form for expressing these ideas in accessible and sympathetic ways. Large swathes of these traditions would be lost if it wasn't for Zipes's scholarship and persistence."-- Michael Rosen, editor of Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain.