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Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Selection)

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Selection)

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1857
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
493
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Children's Literature, Fantasy
Moods
Be enchanted, Feel comforted, Escape it all
Translated from
German

Book summary

This collection brings together forty tales gathered by the Brothers Grimm: Snow White and the queen's magic mirror, Hansel and Gretel lost in the forest, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and lesser-known ones such as “The Blue Light”. Here we meet witches, talking animals and clever young heroes.

These are the tales children have been told for two centuries, here in the text of the Grimms' last edition, from 1857, which is often darker than the versions we know.

Short and simply written, they can be read one by one in the language you are learning.

The plot

The Frog and the Golden Ball. A princess is playing with her golden ball beside a well. The ball falls into the water, so deep that no bottom can be seen. A frog offers to fetch it if the princess promises to take him…

The world of the book

Forests, Castles and Mills. These tales come from Germany. You meet kings and poor woodcutters, millers and soldiers. In the forest, a wolf talks to a little girl, a witch lives in a house of bread and cake, and seven…

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