Author Description

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, dubbed the brothers Grimm, are credited as the authors of popular fairy tales loved by children and shared by adults today. Both were born in Hanau, Germany, in the years of 1785 and 1786. With the death of their father, followed by a drop in family income, their mother pushed them to study law and philology at the University of Marburg. There, the brothers adopted an interest in medieval German literature and pursued a new career, in addition to their studies. Contents: The Frog-King; or, Iron Henry The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Rapunzel Little Brother and Little Sister The Star-Money The Fisherman and His Wife The White Snake Haensel and Grethel The Seven Ravens Ash-Maiden The Elves and the Shoemaker The Three Brothers Little Table Set Thyself, Gold-Ass, and Cudgel Out of the Sack Iron John Clever Elsie The Bremen Town-Musicians The Six Swans The Poor Miller’s Boy and the Cat Little Red-Cap King Thrushbeard The Gold-Children Little Snow-White Rumpelstiltskin Little Briar-Rose The Three Little Men in the Wood The Golden Bird The Queen Bee Bird-Found The Golden Goose Mother Holle The Two Travelers Jorinda and Joringel How Six Men Got On in the World The Goose-Girl The Singing, Soaring Lark Doctor Knowall The Blue Light The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle The Three Luck-Children The Donkey Cabbages Clever Hans The Iron Stove Sweet Porridge Snow-White and Rose-Red The Hedge-King One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes The Goose-Girl at the Well The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces The Nix of the Mill-Pond The Little House in the Wood Maid Maleen