Her talent as a weaver has ensured that she can support herself--and perhaps win the love of the handsome Prince. But when an evil giant takes Tatsinda prisoner and plans to destroy the kingdom, it will take all the magic, skill, and love that Tatsinda and the Prince can muster to foil the giant and restore peace and beauty to the mountain. “This timeless story will make an absorbing read-aloud.”--School Library Journal

    

    For among this familiar and timeless collection of the Brothers Grimm, you will find all the favorites of folk lore and fairyland, and all the enchanting people and places treasured and loved by millions throughout the world.Classic stories like The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, to be read and listened to, will delight and entertain all children and their parents as well.

    T. A. Hoffmann dwelt in the realm of "things that seem to not exist but live just the same." The truth of these words of Balzac's about Germany's greatest Romantic storyteller is confirmed by all five tales in this volume, each representing a different facet of Hoffmann's genius, yet bearing its unmistakable signature.The impact of these stories is all the more stunning because they are variations on a single theme: the pursuit of a man by a dark fate he nurtures within himself. Long before the advent of psychoanalysis, Hoffmann was aware of the threat of eruption from the unconscious. The weird lands he explores lie within ourselves.The SandmanOne of the tales selected by Offenbach for his opera Tales of Hoffmann. Nathanael, presented in childhood with a gruesome picture of the "bringer of sleep," flees all his life from a man who wants his eyes.Mademoiselle de ScuderyIn which a victim of split personality baffles the police of 17th century France.Datura FastuosaOf the awful consequences of repression and a mother fixation.The King's BrideSuch delightful whimsy! Yet it does not spare us an encounter with the more dubious aspects of ourselves.Gambler's LuckA suggestion of Edgar Allan Poe and perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson, and is there a touch of O. Henry?

    She was a revered story-teller and council member of the ALA who spent her senior years as "storyteller-in-residence" at the University of Southern Carolina..Book Includes best-loved tales from Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Snow White, Jack the Giant Killer, many more. Illustrated with the classic artwork of the original tales.

    Illustrations by Pauline Baynes.