Although fairy tales did not appear in Scholastic’s forecast of children’s publishing trends for the coming year, they certainly blanketed the arts media in 2012, the bicentennial of the Brothers ...

From Cinderella to Rapunzel to the really gruesome tales you might not know – the myth and magic of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham 1909. Once upon a time – 200 ...

The Grimm brothers' fairy tales are about to get a lot more... grim. For the first time, the original first edition of the fairy tale collection has been translated into English, and things aren't ...

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 ...

“Hansel and Gretel” is one of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales that has become world famous. Courtesy illustration “The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition,” ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Fairy tales just don’t die. They just get rebooted for new ...

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 ...

In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of never-published fairy- and folktales collected by the 19th-century folklorist ...