Snow White
Subtitle: Classic Fairy Tales
Contributors: Adapted by: Yossi Bechar & David Kriss
Edition: first edition
Series: B-43005
Publisher: Kidfest International - Avshalom Rubin
Published: 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9789653120327
Subjects: Fairy tales; Folklore Germany
First sentence: Many, many years ago, in a far-off land, ruled a King and a Queen in a palace fine and grand. All that a person could wish for was theirs: riches and jewels beyond compare, rooms full of gold and silver in piles, and the lands they owned went on for miles. They were loved and respected whrever they went, but there was just one problem - they were not content. For they had no child to call their own and turn their palace into a home. So the Queen would sadly sit and sew and gaze her Kingdom through the window........
Description: The Brothers Jacob (1785-1863) and Willhelm (1786-1859) Grimm -
This book contains one of the hundred of wonderful fairy tales collected by The Brothers Grimm.
Many of these stories, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, the Prince and the Frog, Tom Thumb, and others, are so well known that seems as though we were born with them.  Many other beautiful and fantastical tales are lesser known and should be made available to a wider readership.  
Jacob Grimm was born in 1785 and his brother Willhelm a year later.  The brothers were also writers and carried out research into the German language and folklore but became a world famous for the fairy tales they collected and published over the years.  These were tales which had been passed down from generation to generation without ever being written down.
The stories were collected from many people over a period of many years but their main and richest source was a woman, cow-herd called Katerina Weimann.  She knew by brothers Grimm faithfully recorded.  The Brothers Grimm worked for sixteen years before publishing the first volume of these tales, and three years later, in 1815, their second book was published.  These tales, originally published in German, have been translated over the years into scores of other languages and have given endless pleasure to many generations of children all over the globe.
Notes: In fairy tales the very first line is always "Once upon a time" and let me whisper in your ear something else I'd like you to hear: When you're reading fairy tales don't worry about all the details. It doesn't matter if they're true as long as they are true for you. Well, that's all I wanted to say so let's read the story without further delay......