Favorite Fairy Tales from Grim ... Classic Folk Tales Retold by Schorsch, Illustrated by Kitty Diamantes. 93 Gold Colored Page Edges ... CONTENTS: The Frog Prince / Mother Holle / The Elves and the Shoemaker / Sleeping Beauty / The Fisherman and His Wife / Little Red Riding Hood / Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle / Rumpelstiltskin / Snow White / The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, folk tale / The Golden Goose / Rapunzel / The Bremen Town Musicians... From earliest times, people have gathered around the storyteller, and though no one knows exactly where or how fairy tales first started, in all parts of the world they share similar themes. Fairy tales give from to the desires and fears of all people and reflect a strong faith in justice. Evil is punished and goodness is rewarded. Simple yet rich in detail, the tales were woven like the cloth woven in every village. The pattern remained conatant while embellishments varied with telling and time. In a world where belongings were few, these tales became treasured possessions... At the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Germany was still a land of kingdoms and fair princesses, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to find the storytellers and record the old tales. For the first time, the spirit and simplicity of this oral tradition made its appearance in recorded literature, and it wasn't long before Rumplstiltskin, Sleeping beauty, Hansel, Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood could be found wandering through the pages of the storybooks of many lands...... Favorite Tales from Grimm gathers some of the storytellers' most enchanting tales in one large, lavishly illustrated book. Children will be greeted by the timeless magic that has put grimms' fairy tales among some of the most universally beloved stories in literature ... Classic Folk Tales.
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