Read Grimms' Fairy Tales in Englishwith every sentence explained

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm was first published in 1812. In Passage you read the full text in English, marked beginner and filed under children and fantasy.

A golden apple stolen every night. A house built of bread. A name that must be guessed before dawn.

Sixty-two tales gathered by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from the villages and firesides of Germany fill this classic English collection. Here are the stories everyone half-remembers: Hansel and Gretel lost in the forest, Rapunzel letting down her golden hair, Briar Rose asleep behind her hedge of thorns, and the little man called Rumpelstiltskin. Beside them sit lesser-known gems such as The Golden Bird, The Juniper-Tree and Clever Gretel.

Youngest sons outwit their brothers, talking animals give good advice, and greedy kings and wicked stepmothers get what they deserve, often with a sharp twist of humour or cruelty. The tales are short, brisk and full of repetition, perfect for reading one at a time.

First published in 1812, the Grimms’ collection shaped how the world tells fairy tales, all the way to Disney’s Snow White and Cinderella, here under their old names, Snowdrop and Ashputtel.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.