Presents two tales from the Brothers Grimm, combined with Mr. Fox's highly unusual interpretations of them.

Selection and adaptation of seventy-five Grimm's fairy tales, as translated by Jack Zipes, and newly illustrated by Shaun Tan.

A bear, befriended by two sisters during the winter, returns one day to reward them royally for their kindness.

Disgruntled at not being invited to the princess's christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

Swiss author J?urg Amann writes an adaptation of "The Fairy Tale of the World" from a scene in Georg B?uchner's "Woyzeck," a play about the effects of poverty.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

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

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...

Contents: SLEEPING BEAUTY, THE (by Perrault, Charles); FROG PRINCESS, THE (from the Russian); DONKEY-SKIN (by Perrault, Charles); KUZMA AND THE FOX (from the Japanese); PUSS IN BOOTS (by Perrault, Charles); THUMBELINA (by Andersen, Hans Christian); GREEN SNAKE (by d'Aulnoy, Madame); TINDER BOX, THE (by Andersen, Hans Christian); CINDERELLA (by Perrault, Charles); KIP, THE ENCHANTED CAT (from the Russian); GRACE AND DEREK (by d'Aulnoy, Madame); URASHIMA...