Jacob Grimm

Now, when poor Snow White found herself alone in the big forest, she didn't know which way to turn, but she knew that she must run as far from the queen as she could go. There were so many strange noises in the forest--and the towering dark trees and their looming shadows looked fierce and ominous. She felt so frightened that she didn't know what to do, but she ran like the wind over sharp stones and through bramble bushes and across mountains. Sometimes...

210 traditional tales with accompanying explanatory and historical material.

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

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

"Did you know that Cinderella's stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds? Really. Or that Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half? And there's a talking sausage in 'The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage.' (Okay, that one's not so grim.). Those are the real fairy tales. But they have nothing on the story I'm about to tell."--Page 4 of cover.

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

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

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

This edition of Tales from Grimm is a fantastic selection of 16 stories, decorated with Wanda Gág's splendid illustrations. Included, are such well-known and loved stories as 'The Frog Prince', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Valiant Little Tailor', 'Cinderella', 'Snow White', and 'Rumpelstiltskin'. Wanda Gág (1893 – 1946), was an American artist, author, translator and illustrator, who won many awards for her intricate and ethereal black-and-white...