: Re: What defines a Fairy Tale versus typical Fantasy? My second-grader has been asked to write a "fairy tale." We are both clueless about what makes a story a "fairy tale" different from a fantasy

@Sherry594

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Mathematico-logical: fairy tales are a subset of fantasy tales/stories.

For second graders, one would want a short story with a happy ending.

A story with a moral to it is a fable (a la Aesop or LaFontaine), a different sub-set.

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