James Riley (writer) from Los Angeles, California to Alexandria, Virginia. James Riley's first published novel, "Half Upon a Time", was released on September 7, 2010. It is a fantasy novel centered around a boy named Jack, the fictional son of the main character from the children's story "Jack and the Beanstalk", and a girl named May who is from our nonfictional world. The novel incorporates plot points from various Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White". This is Riley's first story centered around the idea that the fictional and nonfictional worlds are connected, a common theme
Histoires ou contes du temps passé words "Contes de ma Mère l'Oy". The stories written for the 1697 edition were "The Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots", "Cinderella", "Riquet with the Tuft", "Hop o' My Thumb", "Griselidis" ("La Patience de Grisélidis"), "The Ridiculous Wishes" ("Les Souhaits ridicules"), "Donkeyskin" ("Peau d'Ane") and "Diamonds and Toads" ("Les Fées"). Eight were newly written prose stories and three were stories previously written in verse. Each story ended with a rhymed, well-defined and cynical moral "Moralitè". Three were published earlier in the literary magazine "Mercure galant": "Griselidis" and "Suhait" in 1693, and "Sleeping