This selection pulls fifty-one stories from the Brothers Grimm's much larger collection of tales gathered from German peasant storytellers, kept close to their original shape rather than smoothed into something safer. Reading them aloud at five to eight brings out the rhythm and repetition the Grimms preserved from oral telling in the first place.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES
- THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
- RAPUNZEL
- LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER
- THE STAR-MONEY
- THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
- THE WHITE SNAKE
- HAENSEL AND GRETHEL
- THE SEVEN RAVENS
- ASH-MAIDEN
- THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
- THE THREE BROTHERS
- IRON JOHN
- CLEVER ELSIE
- THE BREMEN TOWN-MUSICIANS
- THE SIX SWANS
- THE POOR MILLER’S BOY AND THE CAT
- LITTLE RED-CAP
- KING THRUSHBEARD
- THE GOLD-CHILDREN
- LITTLE SNOW-WHITE
- RUMPELSTILTSKIN
- LITTLE BRIAR-ROSE
- THE THREE LITTLE MEN IN THE WOOD
- THE GOLDEN BIRD
- THE QUEEN BEE
- BIRD-FOUND
- THE GOLDEN GOOSE
- MOTHER HOLLE
- THE TWO TRAVELERS
- JORINDA AND JORINGEL
- HOW SIX MEN GOT ON IN THE WORLD
- THE GOOSE-GIRL
- DOCTOR KNOWALL
- THE BLUE LIGHT
- THE THREE LUCK-CHILDREN
- THE DONKEY CABBAGES
- THE IRON STOVE
- SWEET PORRIDGE
- SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
- THE HEDGE-KING
- THE GOOSE-GIRL AT THE WELL
- THE SHOES THAT WERE DANCED TO PIECES
- THE NIX OF THE MILL-POND
- THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE WOOD
- MAID MALEEN
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