Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

1917

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First published in 1917, Little Brother & Little Sister is a mix of forty well known and less known Grimm fairy tales, including "Snow-White and Rose-Red," "The Cunning Little Tailor," "The Young Giant," and many more, all selected by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham. The deep forest settings of many of these German stories, based upon folklore, harmonize beautifully with Rackham's beautiful and intricate black-and-white drawings, fifty-five altogether, which depict gnomes, trolls, giants, mischievous fairies, animals that talk, and trees with more personality than people. This wonderful collection will become a favorite treasure of any child who loves to read.

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Jacob Grimm

Author · 313 books

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.

Wilhelm Grimm

Author · 140 books