The Elves and the Shoemaker
A poor shoemaker has leather for just one more pair of shoes.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German scholars who collected and published folk and fairy tales, often filled with clever tricks, strange transformations, and hard-won happy endings. Here you can read stories such as “Rumpelstiltskin” and “The Bremen Town Musicians,” with every story free to read or listen to in a natural voice.
Rumpelstiltskin
A miller boasts that his daughter can spin straw into gold, and the king locks her in a room full of straw.
Little Red Cap
A little girl in a red cap takes cake and wine to her grandmother in the wood and meets a wolf on the way.
The Bremen Town Musicians
An old donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, all thrown out by their masters for being too old, set off together to become town musicians in Bremen.
The Frog Prince
A princess drops her golden ball into a well, and a frog brings it back for a promise she has no intention of keeping.
King Thrushbeard
A proud princess mocks every suitor, so her angry father the king promises her to the first beggar who comes to the door.
The Golden Goose
Simpleton shares his food with a little grey man in the forest and is given a goose with feathers of pure gold.
The Goose Girl
A princess travelling far to be married is betrayed on the road by her maid, who takes her place as the bride and sends her to mind the geese.
Hansel and Grethel
Two children left in the forest find a house made of bread and cake, and the old woman who lives in it.
The Almond Tree
A cruel stepmother kills her stepson, and his little sister buries his bones under the almond tree in the garden.
Snow-White
A queen asks her magic mirror who is fairest of all, and one day it names her stepdaughter.
The Brave Little Tailor
A little tailor kills seven flies with one blow and stitches "Seven at one blow!"
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Can I listen to Brothers Grimm stories aloud?
Yes. Any story on Pagehush can be read aloud in a natural voice.