Like Sleeping Beauty awakening from her 100-year slumber, these childhood favorites arise fresh and blooming every time they’re read. This new compilation of some of the world’s greatest fairy tales abounds in timeless stories of the struggle of good against evil, bravery in the face of overwhelming danger, and virtue rewarded with everlasting love. Told to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm almost two centuries ago by European storytellers, the tales possess all of the most engaging elements of folklore - from magic spells and enchanted frogs to a colorful cast of noble princes, lovely maidens, giants, witches, and other fantastic characters. These forty-five unabridged stories, selected from the more than 200 collected by the Brothers Grimm, include such unforgettable classics as Snow White,
The Elves and the Shoemaker,
The Brave Little Tailor,
The Golden Goose,
Hansel and Gretel,
Little Red Riding Hood,
Rumpelstiltskin,
Rapunzel, and Tom Thumb.
AGES: 7 to 11 AUTHOR: German folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were among the first collectors of fairy tales, and their 19th-century compilations established the enduring fame of such oral traditions as Cinderella,
Rumpelstiltskin,
Sleeping Beauty, and scores of other beloved stories.