Contents note: GRIMM TALES FOR YOUNG AND OLD -- The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich -- The Cat and the Mouse Set Up House -- The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers -- Faithful Johannes -- The Twelve Brothers -- Little Brother and Little Sister -- Rapunzel -- The Three Little Men in the Woods -- Hansel and Gretel -- The Three Snake Leaves -- The Fisherman and His Wife -- The Brave Little Tailor -- Cinderella -- The Riddle -- The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage -- Little Red Riding Hood -- The Musicians of Bremen -- The Singing Bone -- The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs -- The Girl with No Hands -- The Elves -- The Robber Bridegroom -- Godfather Death -- The Juniper Tree -- Briar Rose -- Snow White -- Rumpelstiltskin -- The Golden Bird -- Farmerkin -- Thousandfurs -- Jorinda and Joringel -- Six Who Made Their Way in the World -- Gambling Hans -- The Singing, Springing Lark -- The Goose Girl -- Bearskin -- The Two Travelling Companions

-- Hans-my-Hedgehog -- The Little Shroud -- The Stolen Pennies -- The Donkey Cabbage -- One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes -- The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces -- Iron Hans -- Mount Simeli -- Lazy Heinz -- Strong Hans -- The Moon -- The Goose Girl at the Spring.

In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.