brothers grimm fairy tales reading list

Errol le cain
(Errol le Cain, cover illustration for Thorne Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty (Faber, 1975); found here)

Here is the list of contents from my edition (Oxford University Press, edited by Joyce Crick) giving the stories and the order in which I plan to read them. First tale is ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’, and I intend to post every Monday, so first post will be Monday 3rd September. Onward!

  1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry
  2. Cat and Mouse as Partners
  3. Our Lady’s Child
  4. The Tale of the Boy who Set Out to Learn Fear
  5. The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
  6. Faithful John
  7. The Good Bargain
  8. The Twelve Brothers
  9. The Pack of No-Good, Low-Life Ruffians
  10. Little Brother and Little Sister
  11. Rapunzel
  12. The Three Little Men in the Forest
  13. Hansel and Gretel
  14. The Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife
  15. The Brave Little Tailor
  16. Ashypet
  17. The Tale of the Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
  18. Mother Holle of the Snow
  19. The Seven Ravens
  20. Little Redcap
  21. The Bremen Town Band
  22. The Singing Bone
  23. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
  24. The Girl with No Hands
  25. Clever Hans
  26. Sensible Elsie
  27. The Table-Lay, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack
  28. Little Thumb
  29. Mrs Fox’s Wedding
  30. The Robber Bridegroom
  31. Godfather Death
  32. Thumbling’s Travels
  33. Fitcher’s Bird
  34. The Tale of the Juniper Tree
  35. Old Sultan
  36. The Six Swans
  37. Briar-Rose
  38. Foundling Bird
  39. Snow-White
  40. Knapsack, Hat, and Horn
  41. Rumpelstiltskin
  42. The Golden Bird
  43. The Golden Goose
  44. Coat o’ Skins
  45. Jorinda and Joringel
  46. The Three Children of Fortune
  47. Six Make their Way through the Whole World
  48. Grandfather and Grandson
  49. The Tale of Little Hen’s Death
  50. Hans in Luck
  51. The Fox and the Geese
  52. The Singing, Soaring Lark
  53. The Goose-Girl
  54. The Young Giant
  55. The King of the Golden Mountain
  56. The Water of Life
  57. The Bearskin Man
  58. Tales of Toads and Adders
  59. The Jew in the Thorn Bush
  60. The Bright Sun Brings it to Light
  61. The Wilful Child
  62. The Devil and his Grandmother
  63. One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three Eyes
  64. The Shoes that were Danced to Tatters
  65. Iron John
  66. The Lord’s Beasts and the Devil’s
  67. The Little Shepherd Boy
  68. The Starry Coins
  69. The Stolen Farthing
  70. Reviewing the Brides
  71. The Tale of Cockaigne
  72. The Tall Tale from Diethmarsch
  73. A Riddling Tale
  74. Snow-White and Rose-Red
  75. Sharing Joy and Sorrow
  76. The Moon
  77. The Messengers of Death
  78. The Unequal Children of Eve
  79. The Golden Key
  80. St Joseph in the Forest
  81. The Rose
  82. Our Lady’s Goblet