Sleeping Beauty: A Grimm's Fairy Tale

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Sleeping Beauty is perhaps one of the most well-known and best-loved of all fairy tales. Beautifully illustrated in soft watercolors.

Genres: Classics, Childrens

28 pages, Hardcover

Published July 15, 2001

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

[Tiuri · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was mediocre. The artwork was alright and somewhat cute, but the prince had disturbingly long blond hair which altogether did not become him one whit. The retelling was also mediocre, and felt rushed. Overall, there are better picture book retellings out there. For one, how about the version by Adele Geras. It’s fabulous.

[Celine Spryks (Taylor’s Version) · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s not really the one we know. And the ending isn’t the ending I know but I like this one. I like fairytales.

[F Verbeeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[rossire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I could be cursed to sleep for 100 years; it would probably cure my depression.

[Randie D. Camp, M.S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this classic fairy tale in the Classics of Children’s Literature (6th Edition) by John W. Griffith and Charles H. Frey. Published by Pearson in Upper Saddle River, NJ in 2005.

Just as I remembered. The hedge reminds me of the Firebird tale...I love the themes and motifs of fairy tales that connects tales from different cultures. I need to study more about the significance of all the numbers mentioned in this tale. I must also note that this fairy tale doesn't quite fit into the typical pattern of the Brothers Grimm but, it is still a great tale.

[Samiya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute.