Grimm Tales
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  • Published: 5 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141442228
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

Grimm Tales

For Young And Old

Formats & editions
Hardback
23 Dec 2020
EBook
26 Sep 2012
Audiobook
14 Oct 2021
Paperback
5 Nov 2013
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A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in paperback

In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. These new versions show the adventures at their most lucid and engaging yet. Pullman's Grimm Tales of wicked wives, brave children and villainous kings will have you reading, reading aloud and rereading them for many years to come.
  • Published: 5 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141442228
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford.

His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.

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Also by Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife: The Graphic Novel
Serpentine
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two
Spring-Heeled Jack
Count Karlstein
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
The Firework-Maker's Daughter
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Praise for Grimm Tales

Never putting a foot wrong, the result is a magical complexity-in-simplicity that is sure to become a classic in its own right

Adam Lively, Sunday Times

Philip Pullman has radically reworked the Grimm tales for all ages

Nicolette Jones, Telegraph

One of Pullman's most useful additions is the vastly improved poems and jingles...his freer versions are catchy and authentic

Guardian

I've admired Philip Pullman since his early fantasy Galatea on through the splendid trilogy His Dark Materials. All of his gifts, including his prose eloquence, and his endless high Romantic imagination, are manifested in this marvelous retelling of Grimm

Harold Bloom