Welcome to fantastic Issue 6, Fairy Tales! This issue takes our READers inside the fairy tale by looking at stories from all over the world.

Darby O'Gill takes Center Stage in Jeff Ives's adaptation of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh's Irish fairy tale of Darby O'Gill and the Good People. This is the story of a good Irish man's mission to rescue his cow, which has been stolen by the “good people,” a group of leprechauns.

Our fiction selection is a classic fairy tale from the ultimate fairy tale tellers, the Brothers Grimm. “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” is the story of a wicked wizard's precocious assistant.

Johnathan Blum brings us a nonfiction look at how fairy tales influence writers today in “Using Their Imaginations.” Meanwhile, the Issue 6 LSI riffs on this theme by examining just what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale.

This issue is full of fantasy, wonder and fun. We hope your students are carried away with it. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or if you just want to say hello, you can write to us at read@weeklyreader.com. And don't forget to check out our literary blog, WORD, at www.readandwriting.com!

And they lived happy ever after,

The Editors of READ Magazine.