Brave Little Tailor (Well Loved Tales) - Hardcover

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

9780721407913: Brave Little Tailor (Well Loved Tales)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0721407919 ISBN 13: 9780721407913

Publisher: Ladybird Books, 1982

A tailor who kills seven flies with one blow outwits the king and earns half his kingdom and his daughter's hand in marriage.

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A spirited retelling of the favorite tale from the Brothers Grimm, lavishly illustrated. A little tailor who kills seven flies at one blow is so impressed with his own bravery that he ventures out to tell the world. Armed only with his wits, he must conquer a gruesome giant, two terrible ogres, and a ferocious unicorn before he can win the hand of a beautiful princess.

About the Author:

After studying at Marburg, Jacob became a clerk in the War Office at Kassel, and in 1808 librarian to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. In 1841 he received Professorship at Berlin, and in 1854 began work on Deutsches Worterbuch with his brother.

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