Although fairy tales did not appear in Scholastic’s forecast of children’s publishing trends for the coming year, they certainly blanketed the arts media in 2012, the bicentennial of the Brothers ...

“Grimms’ Juniper Tree” has several nice touches: a lovely accompaniment by cellist Evan McGonagill, and some excellent moves by Daniel Kontz’ and Robin Stamey’s stick puppets, who deliver the nastiest ...

This course will provide a study of the Grimms' fairy tales, their collection and publication by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the contest of 19th century German Romanticism, and their enduring relevance ...

Once upon a time, a family by the name of Grimm carried on a life that was anything but. In the wooded German state of Hessen, Philipp, a town clerk, lived with his wife, Dorothea, and their children ...

Jacob Grimm died 150 years ago today, four years after his younger bother Wilhelm. Together they changed forever the face of literature, especially children’s literature, with their collection of ...

You probably know that the original Brothers Grimm fairy tales didn't have the same sort of kid-friendly happy endings as the Disney versions. But it’s not because ...

I have been studying and translating the Grimms’ tales for the past 40 years, and it has always disturbed me that they have been considered as wonderful tales for children à la Disney. Moreover the ...

The first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales, in 1812, featured such stories as “How the Children Played at Slaughtering.” Over the next 50 years, each new printing was edited to make it more child ...

If you had to recount the story of Cinderella right now, you could probably do it quite easily. Wicked stepmother, glass slipper, stroke of midnight, blah, blah, blah. You could probably also reel off ...

It’s the 200th anniversary of the books that brought us Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and 200 other stories: Kinder- und Hausmärchen or Children’s and Household Tales, first published by Jacob ...

University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – these well-known stories and others, first published by the Brothers Grimm in Kinder- ...