The phrase "fairytale characters" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to characters that are typically found in fairytales or stories with fantastical elements.
Example: "The children dressed up as their favorite fairytale characters for the school play."
Alternatives: "fairy tale figures" or "storybook characters".
Because the show is made by Disney-owned ABC, these aren't any old fairytale characters.
At its heart sits, perhaps, one of the most decadent fairytale characters – the Golden Goose.
(Alan Ayckbourn's dovetailing of fairytale characters and reality in his 2008 musical, Awaking Beauty, packs a stronger emotional punch).
These are not fairytale characters: we want to believe in them as the real people we know exist.
Like the television series, it helps teach preschoolers literacy and social skills with fairytale characters who are much like contemporary children.
It has changed: the trees his Yorkshire trees, the sky his Californian sky, cloudscape a Bridlington one, the tulips, elderly mothers, Grimms' fairytale characters – all his.
This year it is the turn of another fairytale character, Winnie-the-Pooh.A.A. Milne and his illustrator, E.H. Shepard, were the J.K. Rowlings of their time.
He stoops to greet me beneath a cluster of cherry trees in the sloping gardens and I notice he has the combination of stature and softness that suggests a kindly fairytale character — a Silver Giant, rather than a Selfish one.
So it's easy to feel complicit with the intrepid spirit of this lone fairytale character, who likes to tempt fate while proclaiming: "A slow army of lichens creeps across my face … And as the earth rises from under me I hunker down inside my own coolness to wait".
Elements in many of the great Victorian and Edwardian children's stories have a fairytale character.
I poured over the decision, feeling a bit like the fairytale character who has to spin straw into gold.
