What We Are Reading Today: Buried Treasures

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Updated 22 February 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Buried Treasures

  • In “Buried Treasures,” Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the 19th and 20th centuries

Author: JACK ZIPES

Jack Zipes has spent decades as a “scholarly scavenger,” discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors.

In “Buried Treasures,” Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the 19th and 20th centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation.