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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Willow-Wren and the Bear
“One summer day the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said, ‘Brother wolf, what bird is it that sings so well?’ ‘That is the King of the birds,’ said the wolf, ‘before whom we must bow down.’ It was, however, in reality the willow-wren.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Willow-Wren
“In days gone by every sound had its meaning and application.”
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Madame d’Aulnoy and The Island of Happiness (Announcement)
Okay fairy tale admirers: in case you missed it, The Guardian Books published a piece yesterday (December 21st) highlighting the 17th-century French writer Madame d’Aulnoy, an upcoming release of a collection of her fairy tales—The Island of Happiness—, and one tale that will “be published in English for the first time in more than 300 years.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Sole
“The fishes had for a long time been discontented because no order prevailed in their kingdom.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Fox and the Cat
“It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself, ‘He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,’ she spoke to him in a friendly way. ‘Good day, dear Mr. Fox, how are you? How is all with you? How are you going through this dear season?'”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Fox and the Horse
“A peasant had a faithful horse which had grown old and could do no more work, so his master would no longer give him anything to eat and said, ‘I can certainly make no more use of you, but still I mean well by you; if you prove yourself still strong enough to bring me a lion here, I will maintain you, but now take yourself away out of my stable,’ and with that he chased him into the open country.”
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