Many of the originals were brutal and there was no lack of blood, gore. Dec. 22, 2012— -- Once upon a time, two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to gather folk stories for posterity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLAMP is currently working with Netflix and Wit Studio on a brand-new anime project based on Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Netflix revealed this project through its Japanese official anime account at the 2021 ...

What modern mother hasn't cringed at the pink and passive fairy tale princesses served up to her impressionable girl? The Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel are heroines ...

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, ...

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 ...