Jacob Grimm

Retells the story of a wicked fairy who casts a spell that dooms a princess to sleep for one hundred years.

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...

A retelling of the Grimm Brothers tale captures the kindness of a shoemaker and the magic of the two elves who help him.

Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother. Includes a note about the history of the tale.

On her way to marry a distant prince, a young princess is forced to trade places with her evil serving maid and becomes a goose girl instead of a bride when she reaches her destination.

Riding a silver-shoed rooster and playing magical music on his bagpipes, a young man who's half hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.