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''We told children to think about how pictures tell a story like in fairy tales,'' says the Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni about the latest chapter in her ongoing project to help underprivileged children. ''We hoped to stimulate their creativity and make something that could be sold with the proceeds going back to bettering their hospitals and schools.'' The three resulting tote bags feature vintage Marni prints on one side and drawings by children from East Asia and South America on the other. Eighty percent of the proceeds will go to children's developmental programs geared toward learning and creativity. ''It seemed like the natural thing to do around the holidays,'' adds Castiglioni. ''To celebrate the innocence of a child's imagination.'' The bags are $175 at Marni boutiques and Marni.com. This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Deconstructs traditional fairy tales, and reviews a November 1998 performance of the Young Vic Theater Company of London's `Grimm Tales' at the New Victory Theater in New York City. Their offering of myths in human rather than heroic terms; Grimms' tales as a combination of myth and cultural history; The tales' appeal to the imagination; Performance review.

Reports programming of computers by the students of the College of Wooster to write Russian fairy tales. Details of the same.