With the words 'once upon a time', the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbours, have magical adventures of all kinds and in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.

A bear, befriended by two sisters during the winter, returns one day to reward them royally for their kindness.

An illustrated retelling of the classic tale in which a little girl walking through the woods to her grandmother's house has a frightening encounter with a hungry wolf.

Based on a classic fairy tale, Dashti a maid, and Lady Saren her mistress, have been imprisoned in a tower for seven years because Saren refuses to marry a man she despises. But when two new suitors appear both young women face real hope or else the possibility of life-threatening danger.

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...

"A poor shoemaker wakes up to find beautiful shoes have been made during the night--but who are his secret little helpers?"--P. [4] of cover.