With the words 'once upon a time', the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbours, have magical adventures of all kinds and in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.

An illustrated retelling of the classic tale in which a little girl walking through the woods to her grandmother's house has a frightening encounter with a hungry wolf.

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

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

Contains thirty fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm accompanied by illustrations.

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...