Books with author Nonny Brothers Grimm

Like Sleeping Beauty awakening from her 100-year nap, the old childhood favorites arise fresh and blooming every time they're read. This handsome new compilation of some of the world's greatest fairy tales abounds in timeless stories of the struggle of good against evil, bravery in the face of overwhelming danger, and virtue rewarded with everlasting love. Recounted to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm almost two centuries ago by European storytellers, the tales possess all of the most engaging elements of folklore — from magic spells and enchanted frogs to a colorful cast of noble princes, lovely maidens, giants, witches, and other fantastic characters. These 21 unabridged tales, selected from the more than 200 collected by the Brothers Grimm, include such unforgettable classics as "Snow White," "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Brave Little Tailor," "The Golden Goose," "Hansel and Gretel," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," and "Tom Thumb."

The hero is the youngest of three brothers, given the nickname Simpleton. His eldest brother is sent into the forest to chop wood, fortified with a rich cake and a bottle of wine. He meets a little gray man who begs a morsel to eat and a swallow of ale but is rebuffed. The eldest brother meets an accident and is taken home. The second brother meets a similar fate.

"The Golden Bird" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale wih beautiful illustations, about the pursuit of a golden bird by a king's three sons.Every year, a king's apple tree is robbed of one golden apple during the night. He sets his sons to watch, and though the first two fall asleep, the youngest stays awake and sees that the thief is a golden bird. He tries to shoot it, but only knocks a feather off...

The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale that contains themes of child abuse, murder and cannibalism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. In it, a boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their house. The boy is reincarnated as a bird who flies forth from the tree and enlists the townspeople to help him exact revenge. It is thought that the Grimm version of this tale was adapted from painter Philipp Otto Runge’s “The Almond Tree”.

Tired of the cruel mistreatment they endure from their wicked stepmother, who is also a witch, a brother and sister run away from home one day. They wander off into the countryside and spend the night in the woods. By morning the boy is thirsty, and so the children go looking for a spring of clear water. But their stepmother has already discovered their escape, and has bewitched all the springs in the forest. The boy is about to drink from one, when his sister hears how its rushing sound says "Whoever drinks from me will become a tiger".

The Snow-White and the Skilful Huntsman: Illustrated by Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm), includes three fairy tales, illustrated from the original.The Brothers Grimm: Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore.These fairy tales are based on the original 1884 translation "Household Tales" of Margaret Hunt."Snow White" is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe and today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. The original version collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 is entitled in German: Sneewittchen.The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in the Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912) and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This stories are the base for the recent blockbuster The Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders in 2012.

The classic Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, fully illustrated with beautiful original Arthur Rackham drawings/paintings. Quite possibly the greatest of all fairy tales, these are the timeless creations that have both excited the imagination and conveyed great meaning to millions of children (and no doubt millions of parents). Heavily illustrated throughout to enhance the reading experience. If you have not had the pleasure of viewing Arthur Rackham's illustrations, you are in for a treat!Contents include:SnowdropThe PinkBriar RoseThe Jew among the ThornsAshenputtelThe White SnakeThe Wolf and the Seven KidsThe Queen BeeThe Elves and the ShoemakerThe Wolf and the ManThe TurnipClever HansThe Three LanguagesThe Fox and the CatThe Four Clever BrothersThe Lady and the LionThe Fox and the HorseThe Blue LightThe GoosegirlThe Golden GooseThe Water of LifeClever GrethelThe King of the Golden MountainDoctor Know-AllThe Marriage of Mrs. ReynardThe SaladThe Youth who could not ShudderKing ThrushbeardIron Hans