Hayden’s line of sustainable, handmade plush toys—was born in 2018, when she stumbled upon a box of discarded stuffed animals destined for the landfill. At the time, the native Texan was studying ...
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 ...
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 ...
Americans (if not most people in the world) tend to view the Grimms’ tales in all their forms—books, films, theater and popular culture—as American. Translated and adapted first by British writers, ...
The title page of The Tales of the Brothers Grimm: Drawings by Natalie Frank published by Damiani, and distributed by Artbook D.A.P. (Photo: courtesy of Natalie Frank, Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago); ...
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 ...
University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – these well-known stories and others, first published by the Brothers Grimm in Kinder- ...
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 ...
The village of Grimms was named in honor of Jacob Grimm, one of the early settlers. The railroad was built through the village in the late 1800s. Soon after the coming of the railroad, the lime kilns ...