As they say: "You may have not heard of the Grimm Brothers, but you must have definitly heard a Grimms Fairy Tale"
The entire foundation of Disney has been these Fairy Tales, and surprisingly there are a lot of people who think that these immortal Fairy Tales have been the brainchild of Disney :(
What we are not aware of is that these Fairy tales, which were and are still continued to be immortalised by Disney in their animation movies were infact collected and published by the two German brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, more popularl
y known as the Brothers Grimm.
The Grimm Brothers published their first collection of fairy tales way back in 1812 and then later published a second collection. These two books are together known as "Grimms Fairy Tales" and contain 209 fairy tales from all over Europe.
Point to be noted here is that the brothers only collected and published the tales, they never wrote any, but yet the tales came to be known as Grimms Fairy Tales :)
Grimms Fairy Tales include stories of Magic, of Talking animals, the Evil Queen and the Beautiful Princess and of course Fairies and Dwarfs and Elves!!
The more popular from these 209 tales are Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hans and Gretel, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, The Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel and The Sleeping Beauty.
Read this book and lose yourself in the world of magic and fairy godmothers and of course the Prince Charming :)
You can read a few of the famous fairy tales here : http://www.grimmfairytales.com
And for those who feel apprehensive about being caught with a Fairy Tale book in your hand, well I would just sum it up saying "Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again"(C.S. Lewis) ...... Enjoy :)
They're the true classics. It's almost a mortal sin not to know those fairy tales.
ReplyDeleteNow as an adult I like the fairy tales from Gebrüder Grimm. I did not like them when I was a child, I found them scary. So I did not read them for my children.
ReplyDeleteMarie: yes they are all classics... and i really pity the ones who havent read them!!
ReplyDeletePia: hahahah as a child too i never really foun them scary... i loved them so much that i wished those tales were true!