You may have recently read or heard that the wonderful author Phillip Pullman has adapted many of the 'lost' fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm.
His new book and audio book 'Grimm Tales: For young and old' retells 53 of the Grimm stories. All the old favourites are there – "Little Red-Riding Hood", "Hansel and Gretel", "Cinderella", "Snow White", "Rapunzel", etc – plus less well-known stories such as "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers", "The Singing Bone" and "The Donkey Cabbage".
How to choose?
So if you're a fan and want to pass on these stores to your children (please remember some stories are better suited for slightly older children) how do you choose which is best for you?
Option one is to read them all, alternatively the 'Big Bang Theory' approach is to create a interactive app that enables you to choose based on one of the many variables. And luckily that's exactly what someone's done! So if you wish to find which stories are about Royalty then simply click on royalty to see the stories reorder themselves. Or what to find the most positive story then simply reorder by clicking the positivity button (It's 'Clever Hans' by the way!).
It's a fantastic piece of fun that you can find here, courtesy of Jeff Clark. (It's best viewed on Safari)
And remember we'd love to know what you're favourite Brothers Grimm story is.
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