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Grimm's Fairy Stories

By: The Brothers Grimm, Margaret Hunt - translator
Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
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Publisher's summary

A collection of classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales, culled from Margaret Hunt's 1884 translation. The complete list of tales recounted here is: "The Goose-Girl", "The Little Brother and Little Sister", "Hansel and Gretel", "Oh, If I Could but Shiver!", "Dummling and the Three Feathers", "Little Snow-White", "Frederick and Catherine", "The Valiant Little Tailor", "Little Red-Cap", "The Golden Goose", "Bearskin", "Cinderella", "Faithful John", "The Water of Life", "Thumbling", "Briar Rose", "The Six Swans", "Rapunzel", "Mother Holle", "The Frog Prince", "The Travels of Tom Thumb", "Snow White and Rose Red", "The Three Little Men in the Wood", "Rumpelstiltskin", and "Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes".

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Editorial reviews

Joanna Daniel performs this collection of 25 of the greatest fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Translator Margaret Hunt is credited with bringing German folklore to the attention of English-speaking children, but in this audiobook, Joanna Daniel gets all the credit for a charming performance that adults will appreciate as much as their offspring. Tom Thumb, Snow White, Cinderella, and the Frog Prince all make appearances here, as well as some lesser-known characters like Dummling, Catherine and Frederick, and Mother Holle. All of them are both rendered delicately and enlivened by Daniel's winsome English accent.

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These ate good translations of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. What more do I need to say?

I’m especially impressed by the reader.She is expressive without overacting, a rarity for audible books not read by the author.

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Love the old stories

These are older versions but there are a few newer one. I really love the narrators voice. It is very soothing. She does a great job with the voice changes too. :-D

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More funny than "grimm" .

These were comical. I was a little disappointed, I thought they would resemble the fairytales of my youth put only a few of them did.

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Okay

The narrator did a nice job. She is a good story teller. I just don't like the stories much.

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great book

one of my favorite books of all time from brothers. definitely check it out if you haven't already.

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I had no idea

These stories are dark, moody, and full of trying times. Very enjoyable! Though definitely not for children!

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Perfect in every sense!

The narrator couldn't have done a better job! Enjoyed entirely from start to finish, bravo!

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super great book!!!❤️❤️❤️

I love fairy tales and I love short stories, so this book is a great combination 😀😀

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Love it

Love the readers voice awsome tales
Looking for more from Joanna Daniel
I highly recommend this to all my friends

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Difficult for children

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Fine for adults but difficult for kids, due to degree of accent and speed of speech.

If you’ve listened to books by the authors before, how does this one compare?

To difficult to understand for children not used to highly accented British accent

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To difficult to understand for children not used to highly accented British accent

Was Grimm's Fairy Stories worth the listening time?

Not for children.see above

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