Jacob Grimm
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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.
3) Garbancito
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Acompaña al pequeño Garbancito en sus hazañas y aventuras, mientras cantas junto a él sus divertidas melodías. Pero ten cuidado de bajar la vista, ¡no sea que lo pises!
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Luego de ser abandonados en el bosque, los hermanos Hansel y Gretel deben arreglárselas para encontrar de nuevo su hogar. Pero lo que descubren, es una casita llena de chocolates, pasteles y caramelos. En lo que aparenta ser el paraíso para los hermanos, ¿qué podría salir mal?
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In this tale, twelve princesses, each of astounding beauty, are locked in their shared bedroom by their father each night. Vexed to discover that their dancing shoes show signs of wear every morning, the king demands an explanation, which they refuse to give. The king offers his kingdom and marriage to any of his daughters as a reward to the man who solves the mystery. However, if the mystery remains unsolved after three nights, the erstwhile suitor...
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In The Golden Goose Dummling, the youngest and simplest of three brothers, is sent into the forest to chop wood. He shares his food and drink with a little gray man who directs him to a tree which, when chopped down, is found to contain a golden goose. Dummling sets off on a journey with the goose under his arm, eventually arriving in a kingdom wherein the king will offer his daughter's hand in marriage to any man who can make her laugh. This fairy...
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Return to Grandmothers house with the Grimm Brothers classic Little Red Riding Hood / Rotkäppchen. Presented in dual language English and German parallel text, explore either language as you take a journey with Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Perfect for students, and adults, all ages can benefit from exposure to multiple languages. Bilingual readers will enjoy reading in their language of choice, with the ability to change languages...
10) The Golden Bird
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In The Golden Bird a king who has been robbed of a golden apple commands his gardener's sons to watch the tree. Seeing that the thief is a golden bird, the youngest son tries to shoot it, but only knocks a feather off. Fascinated by the feather, the king decides he wants the whole bird. The gardener's son and his two brothers must make fateful choices in what turns into a fearsome quest to capture the bird.
11) La Cenicienta
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Cenicienta, así es como la llaman sus crueles hermanas. También su madrastra, quien un día lleva a sus hijas al baile en el que el príncipe escogerá esposa, y al que prohíbe a Cenicienta ir. Sin embargo, la joven se presenta en el lugar, y al verla, el príncipe se enamora. Llegada la media noche, Cenicienta abandona el baile y deja como único vestigio de su aparición, una zapatilla de oro. ¿Encontrará el príncipe a la dueña del precioso...
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The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids is a fairy tale that strongly resembles The Three Little Pigs and elements of Little Red Riding Hood. In it, a mother goat leaves her kids home alone, warning them not to open the door. A Big Bad Wolf shows up and tries to talk his way in, but the kids hold fast. When the wolf finally gets past the door through trickery, he eats all but one of the kids. The mother goat returns to find the wolf sleeping under a tree....
14) The Juniper-Tree
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The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale containing themes of child abuse, murder and cannibalism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. In it, a boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their house. The boy is reincarnated as a bird who flies forth from the tree and enlists the townspeople to help him exact revenge. It is thought that the Grimm...
16) The Seven Ravens
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In The Seven Ravens a peasant sends his seven sons to fetch water for his daughter's christening. Having lost their pails in the well, they are afraid to return home without having completed their task. The peasant, thinking they have gone off to play, curses them whereupon they are immediately transformed into ravens. When the daughter is grown up she sets off to discover the whereabouts of her long-lost brothers. This folk tale exists in multiple...
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In Snowdrop (or Snow White) a queen sewing by the window during a snowfall pricks her finger. Admiring the drops of blood on the snow, she wishes for a daughter as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony window frame! The queen dies after giving birth to Snowdrop. The girl's stepmother, a vain and vindictive woman with a magic mirror, plots to eliminate Snowdrop, who grows more beautiful by the day. Snowdrop is left in...
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In The Elves and the Shoemaker a poor shoemaker prepares his last piece of leather to work on before turning in for bed. In the morning, he is amazed to find the shoes already made. Selling these to a grateful customer, his financial obligations are met and he is able to buy enough leather for two more pairs. When these are completed overnight in a similar fashion he stays awake to solve the mystery. Learning that a team of naked elves are responsible...
19) The Frog King
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In the old days, when wishing still helped, there was once a king who had beautiful daughters. The youngest of them was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much before, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Near the castle was a large, dark forest, and in the middle of it, under an old linden tree, was a well. When the day was really hot, the youngest princess would go out into the forest and sit at the edge of the cool fountain....
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In The Valiant Little Tailor a tailor parleys his success at killing seven flies in one stroke into a string of unlikely successes. Making a belt with the words Seven at one blow written on it, the gullible townspeople assume the tailor to have amazing strength. After a contest in which he tricks a giant into believing he is stronger, the tailor persuades the king he can rid the kingdom of giants. In exchange for this the king offers his daughter's...