True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes

If you've ever wondered if the fairy tales and nursery rhymes you grew up on have any basis in reality, this book holds the answers you seek. Included in this collection are the real-life events that inspired the exploits of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Jack Horner, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Quite Contrary and Bluebeard, to n...