Jacob Grimm died 150 years ago today, four years after his younger bother Wilhelm. Together they changed forever the face of literature, especially children’s literature, with their collection of ...

You probably know that the original Brothers Grimm fairy tales didn't have the same sort of kid-friendly happy endings as the Disney versions. But it’s not because ...

We all know the basics of Rapunzel: girl with long hair imprisoned by an evil witch, prince comes along, climbs up hair, rescues said trapped princess. (Why Rapunzel didn't just cut off her hair, knot ...

Once upon a time, a family by the name of Grimm carried on a life that was anything but. In the wooded German state of Hessen, Philipp, a town clerk, lived with his wife, Dorothea, and their children ...

In Grimms’ Fairy Tales there is a story called “The Stubborn Child” that is only one paragraph long. Here it is, in a translation by the fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes: Once upon a time there was a ...

It is hard to imagine American childhood without Walt Disney’s reworkings of Brothers Grimm stories such as “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Rapunzel.” It is impossible to imagine ...

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I have been studying and translating the Grimms’ tales for the past 40 years, and it has always disturbed me that they have been considered as wonderful tales for children à la Disney. Moreover the ...

The first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales, in 1812, featured such stories as “How the Children Played at Slaughtering.” Over the next 50 years, each new printing was edited to make it more child ...

What modern mother hasn't cringed at the pink and passive fairy tale princesses served up to her impressionable girl? The Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel are heroines ...

It’s the 200th anniversary of the books that brought us Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and 200 other stories: Kinder- und Hausmärchen or Children’s and Household Tales, first published by Jacob ...

CLAMP is currently working with Netflix and Wit Studio on a brand-new anime project based on Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Netflix revealed this project through its Japanese official anime account at the 2021 ...