From Cinderella to Rapunzel to the really gruesome tales you might not know – the myth and magic of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham 1909. Once upon a time – 200 ...

You get a Grimms fairy-tale mash-up. Composer Stephen Sondheim took characters from several sources and came up, famously, with “Into the Woods.” Decades before that, the creators of “The Rocky and ...

The Grimms are in our blood. The fairy tales of "Cinderella," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Fisherman and His Wife," "Rumpelstiltskin" and dozens of others have become the common currency of our ...

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 ...

This year is the bicentennial of "Grimms' Fairy Tales," and Philip Pullman celebrates the occasion with new translations and retellings of 50 of his favorites. While he does take storyteller's ...

This week’s book was none other than the foundational stepping stone to our childhood movies: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” Just 213 years before the live-action Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler, hit ...

(RNS) The Grimm fairy tales you're familiar with include added Christian elements and nothing that would offend a middle-class religious sensibility. Now you can read the gruesome originals. (RNS) ...

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 ...

Grimm Brothers fairy tales, in their original telling, were actually pretty ...um, grim. Now a new translation, hailed as a blow against censorship, is proving it anew. In yet another example of ...

Grimms Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The first volume of the first edition was published in 1812, containing 86 stories; the second volume of ...