Grimm's Fairy Tales

In The Golden Bird a king who has been robbed of a golden apple commands his gardener's s...

In Briar Rose, better known as Sleeping Beauty, seven good fairies are invited to be godm...

In this tale, twelve princesses, each of astounding beauty, are locked in their shared be...

In The Frog Prince, a spoiled princess grudgingly befriends a frog after a chance meeting...

In The Goose Girl a princess's maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her ...

In the story of Rapunzel a childless couple awaits the arrival of their firstborn. One da...

In The Valiant Little Tailor a tailor parleys his success at killing seven flies in one s...

In Hansel and Gretel, a famine has settled over the land. The children of a poor woodcutt...

In Little Red Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood, a little girl walks through the woods to de...

In the Brothers Grimm version of Tom Thumb, a lonely couple hopes for a child, even, the ...

In Rumpelstiltskin a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can spin gold from ...

Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression an...

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids is a fairy tale that strongly resembles The Three Litt...

In The Elves and the Shoemaker a poor shoemaker prepares his last piece of leather to wor...

The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale containing themes of child abuse, murder and cann...

In The Golden Goose Dummling, the youngest and simplest of three brothers, is sent into t...

In The Seven Ravens a peasant sends his seven sons to fetch water for his daughter's chri...

In Iron Hans a series of huntsmen disappear in a mysterious forest. It is eventually disc...

In Snowdrop (or Snow White) a queen sewing by the window during a snowfall pricks her fin...

Snow-White, fair-haired, quiet and shy, and Rose-Red, dark-haired, outspoken and lively, ...