Wilhelm Grimm

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

A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress.

A little girl walks to the end of the world to find her seven brothers and free them from enchantment.

Trapped at the top of a tall tower, every day Rapunzel throws down her long, long golden hair for the enchantress to climb. Until one day a stranger climbs up-the King's son! Rapunzel and the prince plan to escape. Can they live happily ever after?

A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.

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

A bear, befriended by two sisters during the winter, returns one day to reward them royally for their kindness.

"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 fairy tale in which a despondent soldier makes a pact to do the devil's bidding for seven years in return for as much money and property as he could ever want.

Relates how a tailor who kills seven flies at one blow manages to become king.