Is it legal to create and publish a book based off on fairy tales?

Of course. It's in the public domain. If u wanted, you can take the originally published version and publish it yourself with the real author's name and make money off it.

If u want to make your own version of it, u can. Don't mess with anyone else's retelling or version of it, like Disney's. Sometimes publishers will create a new copyright on the story by changing it, like making the words more modern for clarity - you can't mess with those versions because they're copyrighted, but the original is still in the public domain and u can use in any way u wish, even if u want to use the exact text + add ur own text to it, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Actual fairytales like Cinderella are in the public domain and no one owns the rights to them because they are the types of stories that originated from oral storytelling a that were passed down for generations. The Grimm Bros has their version, as well as Charles Parault, to name some of the more famous authors.

The older stuff generally is in "public domain" so you can more confidently use Shakespeare on back to ancient legends. You might look at the many Andrew Lang books from around 1888: Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, Green Fairy Book, et Cetera. That is over a hundred years old and so are the original Grimm stories. You should be able to pick out themes like John Crowley did with his Little Big and use them creatively and in a unique and original way. Shakespeare's play A Midsummer night's Dream does the same sort of thing and is old enough to be in public domain itself. Be careful you do not waste your time using stuff too recent or too directly plagiarising because number one you could wind up in a law suit and number two it is a waste not using your own imagination.

There can be more than one Red Queen in Fictionland, and probably is. If your Red Queen differs from Alice's, then she is not the same queen but your own creation - good for you. If she Is Alice's Red Queen, well, she is in the public domain and can meet other people you choose besides Alice, the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter.

I agree with Quentin. Steer clear of Disney's and any one else's modifications. Those are probably modern and thus within their authors' copyright. Also, don't blend Alice's domain with that of any copyrighted character. For example, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain in most places (Arthur Conan Doyle's original Holmes, I mean.) He can visit Wonderland or Alice can visit Baker Street. Same with going down the River with Huck Finn. But she can't meet the Marvel Comics Superheroes or the characters from "Fifty Shades of Grey" or those from "Beverly Hills 90210"

Have her meet your original characters, or characters as old (or older) than she is.

You might, if the Copyright has passed into Public Domain, but you would have to credit the original source. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

"Based ON," not "based OFF ON." If you can't even get that right, you have no chance of becoming a published author.

And Alice in Wonderland is not a "fairy tale." It's a novel written in modern times (only about 150 years ago).

But yeah, it's out of copyright, so you're free to do whatever you want with it.

If you're using Alice in Wonder Land for inspiration, yes. RWBY by Rooster Teeth Studios used a few fairy tales for inspiration for their characters. Ruby Rose (Red Riding Hood) Weiss Schnee (Snow White) Blake Belladonna (Beauty & The Beast) Yang (Goldilocks).

Now if you make a story based on Alice and Wonder Land, like maybe the girl gets lost in a Theme Park and runs into some weird people trying to find her way out, with some bullying ***** being based on the Queen of Hearts, then you might be running the risk of getting sued.

So like if you made a character inspired by Red Riding Hood, she can be a badass girl named Rose who wears a red hoodie and carries around a red Kusarigama with a Red tinted revolver who hunts werewolves and skinwalkers then you got yourself a story to tell.

If however you made a character based off of Red Riding Hood, and she's a girl who gets lost in the woods, and becomes the target of a pack of wolves and engages in a cat and mouse game, racing to her grandma's house only to get messily devoured then you run the risk of getting sued...

Now I feel sad, having the image of Red Riding Hood getting slaughtered. :'(

As long as the book or story is no longer under copyright laws (Cinderella, for example), you can do whatever you want. You'd have to check to see when Alice in Wonderland's copyright laws expire(d).

If you actually got published, which is unlikely, the publishing house has a legal dept. that takes care of such things. Classic fairy tales are fine to use--in fact, there are numerous updated versions of those stories.

No copy right , no problem . The Bros Grimm went out of copyright a century ago. Don't touch Disney.

Yes, if the story is very old it will be out of copyright. As is Alice in Wonderland.

Although if Disney have used a traditional story you have to be careful to follow the original story and not use any modifications that Disney have made to the story.