Jacob Grimm

A collection of thirty-one traditional tales including the well-known "Hansel and Gretel" and "Rumpelstilskin" and the lesser-known "The Dog and the Sparrow" and "The Three Children of Fortune."

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.

A retelling of the tale of 12 princesses who dance secretly all night long, and the soldier who follows them and discovers where they dance.

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

While on their way to Bremen, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.

A brother and sister run away from their cruel and wicked stepmother to a forest, but cannot escape her powers.

SUMMARY: Twenty-seven newly translated fairy tales from Grimm including many old favorites as well as such lesser-known tales as "The Juniper Tree, " "Many-Fur, " and "Brother Gaily."

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king, on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.