From the land of fantastic castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the brothers Grimm collected a treasury of entrancing folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magic beasts and cunning boys. From favorites such as the Frog-Prince and Hansel and Gretel to the delights of Ashputtel or Old Sultan, all are vivid with timeless mystery.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king, on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Retells the story of a wicked fairy who casts a spell that dooms a princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch. With illustrations showing characters with modern dress and possessions.

Retells the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.

Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

A king builds a glass mountain which any man who wants to marry his daughter must climb, but when Princess Raina tries to help one suitor climb it, she falls through a deep crack and is trapped in a deep cave.

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

With help of Iron John, the wild man of the forest who is under a curse, a young prince makes his way in the world and finds his true love.