Jacob Grimm
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Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favourites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 colour plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from award-winning English illustrator Arthur Rackham, whose books and prints are now highly sought-after collectibles
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Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods, and their carefully laid trail of breadcrumbs has been eaten by the birds. Lost and alone, they come across a house of bread and cake, but soon find out the old woman who lives inside is not as sweet as she first seems ...
8) Rapunzel
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Trapped at the top of a tall tower, every day Rapunzel throws down her long, long golden hair for the enchantress to climb. Until one day a stranger climbs up-the King's son! Rapunzel and the prince plan to escape. Can they live happily ever after?
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"When the princess's golden ball splashes into a pond, she promises a friendly frog whatever he wants if he will get it back. But when the frog wants to share her dinner and sleep on her pillow, the princess finds out that keeping her promise is harder than she expected!"
10) The goose girl
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In The Goose Girl a princess' maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her to switch roles with her. The False princess then kills the princess' horse to keep it from talking and forces the real princess to herd geese with the boy Conrad. Conrad begins to notice strange things about the new goose-girl and informs the king. The king coaxes the truth out of the real princess and the false princess is duly punished.
11) Tales from Grimm
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This edition of Tales from Grimm is a fantastic selection of 16 stories, decorated with Wanda Gág's splendid illustrations. Included, are such well-known and loved stories as 'The Frog Prince', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Valiant Little Tailor', 'Cinderella', 'Snow White', and 'Rumpelstiltskin'. Wanda Gág (1893 – 1946), was an American artist, author, translator and illustrator, who won many awards for her intricate and ethereal black-and-white...
13) Snow White
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The tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.
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Collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s, "Snow White" is a classic and timeless tale. The jealous queen's multiple attempts to take the beautiful Snow White's life are foiled by the sympathetic dwarfs. Eventually, Snow White gets her happily ever after with the prince, while the queen receives her comeuppance.Included in this book are twenty more tales from the Grimm Brothers' collection and by Charles Perrault:CinderellaRumpelstiltskinThe...
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Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 1
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Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales.
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Little Red Riding Hood is one of the best known folktales in the world and beloved by children on every continent. The red-hooded girl who, on her way to Grandmothers' house , is tricked by a wolf but in the end comes away unharmed. This cautionary tale with a happy ending leaves everyone feeling good.
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Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
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"Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. Pullman retells his fifty favorites, from much-loved stories like "Cinderella" and "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunzel" and "Hansel and Gretel" to lesser-known treasures like "The Three Snake Leaves,...