FolkloreAges 8–9
The Brothers Grimm: selected fairy tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812
ProtestantEuropean
Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Cinderella, The Bremen Town Musicians, Rumpelstiltskin. Read the older translations — Margaret Hunt, or the Pantheon edition with its notes. The Disney versions are not the same stories.
A note to parents
The older translations preserve genuinely violent endings — the stepsisters' heels and toes in Cinderella, doves pecking eyes, the queen dancing in red-hot iron shoes in Snow White. Preview each tale and paraphrase the worst lines if reading aloud to the younger end of this range.
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