Collections

Most of these tales were not written so much as gathered. Each collection has its own landscape, its own weather and its own kind of ending.

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Brothers Grimm

Germany · Collected 1812-1857

The tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered across seven editions. Deep German woodland, timber cottages, dappled light through a high canopy, and endings that were softened a great deal over fifty years.

5 ready to read · 59 planned

Hans Christian Andersen

Denmark · 1835-1872

The Danish author who wrote, rather than collected, his fairy tales. 156 stories, many of them originals, now read in more than 125 languages.

2 ready to read · 49 planned

Charles Perrault

France · Published 1697

The tales Perrault collected at the French court: rose and gold, candlelight, chateaux and formal gardens, with a rhyming moral at the end of each.

4 ready to read · 10 planned

Aesop

Ancient Greece · c. 600 BC, collected much later

Very short animal stories, each ending in a plain moral. Dry hills, olive groves, low stone walls and hard Mediterranean sun.

3 ready to read · 45 planned

Joseph Jacobs

England · Collected 1890-1894

The English and Celtic tales collected by Joseph Jacobs, told in hedgerow country: rolling fields, thatched cottages, muddy lanes and talking animals.

3 ready to read · 31 planned

Collections

Brothers Grimm

Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Perrault

Aesop

Joseph Jacobs

Asbjørnsen & Moe

Alexander Afanasyev

One Thousand and One Nights

Madame d'Aulnoy

Giambattista Basile

Oscar Wilde

George MacDonald

Wilhelm Hauff

Beatrix Potter

Rudyard Kipling

Lewis Carroll

L. Frank Baum

E. Nesbit

Classic children's literature