Best Selling Books by Jacob W. Grimm

As payment for retrieving the princess''s ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

Where do the king''s beautiful daughter disappear to night after night? And who can solve the mystery of the twelve pairs of dancing slippers, worn to shreds by the morning? Internationally acclained illustrator Jane Ray brings to vivid life the fun-loving princesses of the classic Grimm fairy tale, as they boldly escape the confines of their father''s castle. Each one is a character in her own right--a loving sister & a not-so-dutiful daughter--enjoying their moments of freedom as well as their beautiful brocade ballgowns. With its sumptuous detailed illustrations & gold & silver highlights, The Twelve Dancing Princesses is the latest jewel in the crown of Jane Ray''s retellings of classic stories, which are themselves rapidly becoming modern classics.

A tailor who kills seven flies with one blow outwits the king and earns half his kingdom and his daughter''s hand in marriage.

No longer wanted by their masters, a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster set out for Bremen to become musicians.

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

A strange little man helps the miller''s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A definitive compilation of more than two hundred traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, includes the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, H+nsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap, and Briar Rose, among others, accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

A classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale follows Little Red Riding Hood into the forest and along the wooded path to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, but she encounters a Big Bad Wolf with an empty stomach and a cunning mind, who has other plans for Red and her grandmother. Original.

Mother Goat rescues six of her kids after they are swallowed by a wicked wolf.