Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wordsworth Editions

by Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

Overview

Grimms' Fairy Tales is a charming new edition of one of the best-known collections of children's stories of all times. Peter Carter brings a novelist's flair for narrative pace and vivid imagery to these familiar tales while remaining faithful to the spirit and tone of the original orally transmitted stories. The authentic rhythm of spoken English is captured in Carter's clear and resonant style.
All the favorite characters are here—Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood—along with others less well-known in gripping tales such as The Singing Bone and The Carrion Crows. Haunting and powerful, sad and humorous, these stories remain as fresh and fascinating as the first day they were told.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853261015
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Children's Classics
Edition description:	UNABRIDGED
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

About the Author:
Award-winning author Peter Carter studied English language and literature at Wadham College, Oxford.
About the Illustrator:
Peter Richardson is a popular children's book artist.

Place of Birth:

Hanau, Germany

Place of Death:

Berlin, Germany

Table of Contents

The Golden Bird
Jorinda and Joringel
The Bremen Town Musicians
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
Briar Rose
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Fisherman and his Wife
The Wren and the Bear
The Frog Prince..
The Cat and Mouse in Partnership
The Goosegirl
The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
Rapunzel
The Valiant Tailor
Hansel and Grethel
Red Riding Hood
The Robber Bridegroom
Tom Thumb
Rumpelstiltskin
Clever Grethel
The Old Man and his Grandson
Sweetheart Roland
Snowdrop
Ashenputtel
The White Snake
The Wolf and the Seven Kids
The Queen Bee
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Four Clever Brothers
The Lady and the Lion
The Golden Goose
The Water of Life
The King of the Golden Mountain
Doctor Know-All
The Seven Ravens
The Youth who could not Shudder
King Thrushbeard

Editorial Reviews

From Jim Dale’s fully voiced reading of ’Rumpelstiltskin’ to Kate Rudd’s formal narration of ’Little Snow-White’ and Dion Graham’s lightly accented rendition of ’The Twelve Huntsmen,’ these are stellar performances. A mixture of short and long tales provides a nice blend of listening experiences with whimsical musical interludes.”—AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

"[There] remains something untameable about these enigmatic stories of cruel parents, brave tailors, cannibalistic witches, enchanted princes and princesses, and big bad wolves...Each tale gets a different narrator, chosen from the starry firmament of the audiobook world...[Roy] Dotrice delivers the only biblically themed tale in the bunch and sounds like the voice of the Lord himself."—The New York Times

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