Jacob Grimm
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The primal beating heart at the center of much of the Western literary canon can be found in the folk stories, myths, and fairy tales collected by the amateur folklorists Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. Surprisingly graphic in comparison to their sanitized twentieth-century retellings, these intense tales are not for the faint at heart. A must-read for any fan of folklore.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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 content...
8) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1974]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[48] p. col. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1972]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[31] p. col. illus. 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
Author
Publisher
Folio Society
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
ninth printing
Physical Desc
325 p.
Language
English
Description
"The text of this edition is taken from the revised edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1909."
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1980
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[sr] p.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering witches, devils, warlocks, kindly strangers, and other helpful folk as they take charge of their own happily ever after.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young princess is forced to go into hiding and befriends seven dwarfs when her stepmother, the queen, tries to murder her. She then meets her Prince Charming.
Author
Series
Grimm volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories.