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.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Cat-Skin
Fleeing a forbidden marriage, a princess hides in a thousand-fur mantle as Cat-skin—until three ball gowns and soup-trinkets give her away.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
Briar Rose
A fairy's death curse is softened to a hundred years of sleep, and a prince reaches the briar-bound castle when that time ends.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
A cat and a mouse store a pot of fat for winter, but the cat keeps inventing christenings to sneak off and eat it, one lick at a time.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief
When Partlet chokes on a nut, Chanticleer seeks help through a chain of requests, followed by a disastrous funeral journey.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ashputtel
Birds sort peas from ashes and a hazel-tree dresses Ashputtel for three royal feasts—until a golden slipper exposes her stepsisters' bloody cheat.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes
A rooster, a hen and their unusual travelling companions visit Mr Korbes and arrange a series of painful traps in his house.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts
Chanticleer and Partlet feast on mountain nuts, then pick up a duck, a pin and a needle on their way home to a very unlucky innkeeper.