Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, George Cruikshank

Overview

From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog-Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the delights of 'Ashputtel' or 'Old Sultan', all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children for centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141331201
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/17/2011
Series:	Puffin Classics
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jacob Ludwig Carol Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859), universally known as 'the brothers Grimm', were born in the German state of Hesse. Their ambition was to collect traditional tales in order to preserve Germany's heritage. They published two volumes in 1812 and 1814 which include some of the best-known fairy tales of all time, such as 'Tom Thumb' and 'The Elves and the Shoemaker'.

Table of Contents

The Golden Bird

Hans in Luck

Jorinda and Jorindel

The Travellign Musicians

Old Sultan

The Straw, the Coal and the Bean

The Sleeping Beauty

The Dog and the Sparrow

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

The Fisherman and His Wife

The Willow-Wren and the Bear

The Frog Prince

Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Goose Girl

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet

Rapunzel

Fundevogel

The Valiant Little Tailor

Hansel and Gretel

The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage

Mother Holle

Little Red Riding Hood

The Robber Bridegroom

Tom Thumb

Rumpelstiltskin

Clever Gretel

The Old Man and His Grandson

The Little Peasant

Frederick and Catherine

Sweetheart Roland

Snow White

The Pink

Clever Elsie

Ashputtel

The White Snake

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

The Queen Bee

The Elves and the Shoemaker

The Turnip

Clever Hans

The Three Languages

The Fox and the Cat

The Four Clever Brothers

Lily and the Lion

The Fox and the Horse

The Blue Light

The Raven

The Golden Goose

The Water of Life

The Twelve Huntsmen

The King of the Golden Mountain

The Seven Ravens

Dr Know-All

The Wedding of Mrs Fox

The Salad

The Youth Who Felt No Fear

King Grisly Beard

Iron Hans

Afterword

Further Reading

Biography

Editorial Reviews

Old-fashioned, often broken typeface and Arthur Rackham's gloriously reproduced original artwork accompany 22 stories in a new edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, originally published in 1909. A sepia-toned illustration for "Red Riding Hood" shows the cloaked girl meeting the bristly wolf, dwarfed by endlessly tall, bare trees. A caption in "The Bremen Town Musicians" recalls the bygone era: "They came upon a Cat, sitting in the road, with a face as long as a wet week." ( Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Old-fashioned, often broken typeface and Arthur Rackham's gloriously reproduced original artwork accompany 22 stories in a new edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, originally published in 1909. A sepia-toned illustration for "Red Riding Hood" shows the cloaked girl meeting the bristly wolf, dwarfed by endlessly tall, bare trees. A caption in "The Bremen Town Musicians" recalls the bygone era: "They came upon a Cat, sitting in the road, with a face as long as a wet week." ( Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

From the lovely Ashenputtel (Cinderella) on the cover to the innocent faces of Hansel and Gretel, it is hard to resist this new edition of twenty-two of the best known Grimm's fairy tales combined with twenty-one of Arthur Rachkham's magnificent color plates and twenty-eight of his marvelous pen-and-ink drawings. As Peter Glassman writes in an Afterward, this edition, based on the rare and unwieldy 1909 edition, seems to contain the best of the writers and the artist in one volume. From the Witch climbing up Rapunsel's very long hair to the homely, beloved Seven Dwarfs attending to beautiful Snowdrop, children and parents will relish Arthur Rackham's portrayals as they read and listen to the enduring tales. Even the cat in "The Bremen Town Musicians" truly has "a face as long as a wet week." The choice of font, with its antique look, may present more of a challenge than today's readers are accustomed to, but it blends well with the enchanting art. Glassman also provides a nice summary of the lives of the brother's Grimm and Arthur Rackham, whose art is as evocative as it no doubt was almost 100 years ago. A Peter Glassman book that is a wonderful addition to all library collections. 2001 (orig. 1909), SeaStar/North-South Books, $19.95. Ages All. Reviewer: Elaine Wick

Children's Literature

Is this new edition necessary? Only scholars are likely to persevere through all 32 of the ``previously untranslated'' tales found among the 242 entries. A few, rejected by the Grimms as too French or too literary, have merit; most of the others are slight variants of tales already in the canon or are fragments. There is no analysis or commentary of any individual tales, and though Zipes offers a fine introduction, he himself acknowledges the excellence of Ralph Manheim's translation of the canon (misspelling his name). Since Manheim's work is still in print and available at low cost in paper (Doubleday, 1977), only wealthy scholars, who will appreciate the identification of each tale's human or published source and date of first publication, might insist on Zipes. Patricia Dooley, formerly with English Dept., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia

Library Journal