Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Cornelia Funke

From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the delights of 'Ashputtel' - the original Cinderella - all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children for generations. Illustrators Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Helen Oxenbury, Oliver Jeffers and Emma Chichester Clark have each chosen their personal favourite fairytale to illustrate, and their individual styles make this a unique treasury for everyone to enjoy.

Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Fairy Tales

369 pages, Hardcover

Published September 25, 2012

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Caz (littlebookowl) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall quite enjoyable! Some tales I loved, some were just kind of meh, but it was fun!

[Grace · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love fairytales and how this includes different illustrators for each story. However most of the illustrations weren’t my personal preference of style. Also some of the stories are very violent and disturbing, I draw the line whenever stories contain animal violence. Overall I think there are better versions of fairytale anthologies.

[Kimberley doruyter · Rating 4 out of 5]

lovely only thing i can say

[Mariam Massri · Rating 4 out of 5]

The original stories carry a special aura; jaw-dropping at times, funny at others and one or two stories just leave you outright perplexed. Very fitting for the classical tales.

[Marlee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of these stories are great! There are a few that are uninteresting and also don't have any sort of moral or proper storyline. However, as a whole, this book is fantastic. Many of the stories are not what one would expect from children's movies. Some are more violent or just different. But there almost seems to be a magic in reading such fairy tales as these. A great read for adults and children.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories were poetic or bizarre; some were both.

[KayDee | Bookish_Leviosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a blast from the past. I’ve grown on a diet of grisly and grim fairytales and re-reading the Grimm Fairytales was simply amazing. This edition of the Grimm Fairytales by Puffin is a collection of 55 stories commemorating the 200th anniversary of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s original fairytales. Thankfully it is not the Disneyed and kiddied version and has tried to stay true to the original source. Grimms' Fairy Tales, is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers Jacob and Wilhelm and it was first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories and by 1814 the collection had gone upto 200 magical tales. We try to protect kids thinking that shielding them from the apparent darkness of the human heart will preserve their innocence forever and then went about sugaring the fairy tales not realizing that the stories served the purpose of educating the kids and adults alike and that the people and the world in general is not a bed of roses.
My suggestion to enjoying the tales to the fullest would be to read them in small doses. These are like a delicious sinful snack and too much of it can put one off for sometime. I read enough stories to make my coffee interesting and then I keep it back for another coffee break. I realized that I absolutely enjoyed the stories like this instead of binge reading. This is a book that every story lover should adorn their shelves with. I intend on collecting different editions and publications of the Grimm Fairytales provided I have the money ofcourse.

[Sargam Choudhary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a much-needed blast from the past. It was a sort of mixed feeling while reading some of the stories that were my absolute favourite in my childhood as something that had a different ending then I had either read or watched. it was a bitter-sweet feeling. some of the stories were really amazing, with a blastic ending but for some stories, I was greatly disappointed because they were kind of MEH. Some stories did not have a definite ending, plotline or morals. other than these few stories this book was great and I would recommend these to everyone who wants to get nostalgic about their childhood.

[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of Grimm Brothers fairy tales was enjoyable! There where some stories I liked more than others but overall a enjoyable book. It was interesting to read the classic ones (Cinderella, Snow White, etc...) and see the differences between the original story and how it is portrayed today in movies/ books.

[Geremie Montayre · Rating 1 out of 5]

I want to read it!

[Gabrielle Fuller · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Rachel Bunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I decided to read a book of the original Grimm brother’s short stories because I thought that I would find it interesting. It was mainly interesting to me because I knew that the original stories are very different to the more recent interpretations. I specifically decided to read Rose-Bud, Snow-Drop and Ashputtel because they are very famous. I especially wanted to note how different they are to the Disney movie adaptations which are very sweet and sugary.

The category that this book fills is “A book of short stories”. The three short stories that I decided to read were Rose-Bud, Snow-Drop and Ashputtel. These are more commonly known as Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Cinderella. These stories are very different to most novels. Novels are slowly paced and have a lot of hidden meanings. Short stories are much faster paced and have very clear morals.

My favourite quote is from “Snow-Drop”, it is “Tell me, glass, tell me true! Of all the ladies in the land, who is the fairest? Tell me who?” I liked this quote because it is one of the recurring quotes throughout the book. It mentions the queen saying it six times throughout the story. I also like the way that it rhymes. The most important object in the entirety of the story is the magic mirror and this quote is the most important question asked to the mirror.

Something new that I learned from the story “Rose-Bud” is to forgive people. The thirteenth fairy is not invited to the king’s feast. She does not forgive him for this and casts an evil spell on his daughter. She could not forgive the king for what he did. The reason that the king did not invite her was very simple but she was selfish and disliked being left out. If she had forgiven the king for not inviting her she could have saved herself from the trouble of cursing the princess.

A character in the story “Ashputtel” that was interesting to me was actually two characters. The ugly stepsisters that most adaptations contain are not included in the original story. In “Ashputtel” there are two stepsister but they are not ugly. They are “fair in face, but foul at heart”. I believe that in our society, beauty is considered a virtue. To make the stepsisters seem worse to modern readers, the authors of the more recent adaptations made the stepsisters ugly.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's strange to see what Disney has done with the bare bones of some of these stories. A few are so odd I don't see any point to them. Others have clear moral undertones though told in the irony or creativity of fairy land. Fairies good and bad, witches, robbers, beautiful princesses, princes and poor men, and talking animals abound. Wise and foolish, rich and poor, marriage, dancing, wine, parties, hunger, beauty, hideousness, longing, contentment, selfishness, honesty, evil plots, revenge, justice of a sort . . . it's all here. Men are always marrying princesses. Some stories end, "until she died" others "lived happily to the end of their days." They are brief. Perhaps its simply their nature to tell things simply and directly.

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the real deal – a new edition of the 1823 English translation of the tales transcribed by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from old folks all over Germany. Devotion and treachery, dancing princesses and enchanted frogs – the basis of so much of our popular culture, and a little decapitated kid sitting by the door with his head tied on with a hanky!

This is a natural to go with Adam Gidwitz’s Tale Dark and Grimm books, the third of which, The Grimm Conclusion, is now available.

You can hear me babble about this book on the radio at:
http://programs.wypr.org/podcast/most...

[Quirky Hoarder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Any fairy tales lover here? 🧚‍♀️
🎉With the beautiful cover border illustration and exquisite illustrations inside the book by award winning artists , this book is a collectors edition, celebrating 200th anniversary of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's original fairy tales🎉
Reading through it, I started reminiscing the stories which my 👵 used to tell me when I was just a kid... Oh, I miss those days.

[Ala Janbek · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always wanted to read the brother's Grimm original fairy tales. Of course they are a lot different from the fairy tales we know from Disney movies and children books, sometimes better and sometimes worse, but it is nice to know the original tale behind the movie.