For most children, reading the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm is an essential experience when growing up. Grimm's Fairy Tales collects some of the best-known fairy and folk tales set down by the Brothers Grimm, including "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Frog-Prince," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

Retells four classic Grimm's Brothers fairy tales, including "Tom Thumb," "The Fisherman and His Wife," and "Hans in Luck."

While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.

"Will you tell me a fairy tale?" Every evening, this question becomes part of a ritual that helps children calm down after an active day and see sweet dreams." --

"Felix Hoffmann--one of Switzerland's most important children's book illustrators of the twentieth century--brings wonder and intrigue to these classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales ... Hoffman's subtle details and keen ability to portray expression in humans and animals alike make this collection a visual treasure, and one to explore again and again"--Book jacket front flap.

Folk tales and/or fairy tales from southern Ukraine.

"V detstve bol'she vsego my lyubim slushat' skazki, i sredi vsego ikh mnogoobraziya proizvedeniya A. S. Pushkina zanimayut osoboye mesto. Eto tselyy skazochnyy mir, bez znakomstva s kotorym my uzhe ne myslim svoyu zhizn', svoye dukhovnoye razvitiye. V etot sbornik voshli vse skazki, napisannyye poetom. Kniga, nesomnenno, dostavit mnogo radostnykh minut malen'kim chitatelyam."--Colophon. A collection of fairy tales written by the poet Aleksandr Pushkin....

Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Eight-year-old Maddie and her family move to a farm called Horsetail Hollow, and after she and her six-year-old sister find a wishing well, a magnificent white horse appears--but Maximus is a fairy tale horse, conjured out of Evie's book--so when the girls try to wish him back into his story they all end up in the fairy tale, trying to save Rapunzel.