Little Golden Book Fairy Tale Favorites

by Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen

Princesses, princes, spells, and this unique collection of classic Little Golden Book fairy tales has them all! The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Wild Swans, and The Blue Book of Fairy Tales (featuring Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, and Toads and Diamonds), come together with gorgeous art by Gordon Laite and Sheilah Beckett. Glossy paper and a gold-foiled spine make this mini-treasury a perfect gift for fairy tale fans of all ages.

Genres: Picture Books, Fairy Tales, Childrens

80 pages, Hardcover

First published July 14, 2015

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Jocelin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great collection of favorites from my childhood. A perfect gift for beginning home library for children.

[Catie · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are traditional fairy tales, and still have some of their grimmer little quirks. Your kids may or may not notice, but for example, the cost of the soldier in the Twelve Dancing Princesses not solving the mystery? Beheading. Some of the evil queens and witches? Downright terrifying in the illustrations. With that said, I found the illustration style fascinating and I may come back to this one when my niece is older.

[A. Mickey Perkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Little Golden Books are always so beautiful. The art in this, especially the twelve dancing princesses, is spectacular.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of fairytale both well known and not. Includes:
Rapunzel
Beauty and the Beast
Toads and Diamonds
Twelve Dancing Princesses
Wild Swans