Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm assembled their nineteenth-century household tales from tellers and earlier written sources. Familiar titles such as Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and the Frog Prince appear alongside less familiar stories.
Translations and editions can differ, especially in their endings. The story notes identify the telling followed here. Some retain cruelty, death or coercive marriage plots, and brief wording does not make every version suitable for children.
67 stories are in this collection right now.
Browse by region: Europe.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 6-8
The Queen Bee
A kind dwarf stops his brothers from harming ants, ducks, and bees—then those creatures help him free an enchanted castle and win a princess.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
A mouse, a bird, and a sausage keep house in comfort—until jealousy makes them swap jobs, and none of them can do the work.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Pink
A queen bears a wishing-child; a cook steals him, walls her in a tower—and years later the boy comes home with a pink in his pocket.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Little Peasant
A poor peasant's tricks bring wealth and revenge, but also lead to the deaths of a shepherd and other villagers.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Miser in the Bush
An underpaid servant receives magical gifts, then uses a compulsory-dancing fiddle to extort money and overturn a court sentence.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The King of the Golden Mountain
A merchant sells whatever meets him first for a dwarf's gold—and twelve years later his son Heinel must outwit the bargain.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Goose-Girl
A waiting-maid steals a princess's place and has Falada killed; the true bride keeps geese until a horse's head and an old king expose the fraud.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Juniper-Tree
After a child is murdered, his sister gathers his bones beneath a juniper tree; a singing bird returns with gifts and a deadly millstone.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 6-8
The Golden Goose
Dummling shares his poor cake with a grey man, finds a golden goose that glues a whole procession—and makes a solemn princess laugh.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Golden Bird
A golden feather leads a gardener's youngest son on a fox-guided quest for a golden bird, a wind-swift horse, and a princess.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Frog-Prince
A princess promises companionship for her golden ball, then tries to break her word—until the frog she throws becomes a prince.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Fox and the Horse
An old horse must prove himself stronger than a lion; a fox ties the lion to the horse's tail, and the horse hauls him home.