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The German brothers who collected Cinderella, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two German brothers who collected the fairy tales the world still tells: Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin and more than two hundred others.
Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) were the eldest of a large family in Hanau, in what is now Germany. They studied law, then spent their lives on language and old stories. They were librarians and scholars, and Jacob also began the great German dictionary that took a century to finish.
In 1812 they published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales, stories they gathered from storytellers, friends and old books. They revised it for decades, and the 1857 edition held about two hundred tales. The early versions were darker than the ones most people know today. Short, strange and often funny, these stories were made to be told aloud, which is why they work so well as audiobooks.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.
Rapunzel
The tower, the witch and the longest hair in fairy tales. Our most-played Grimm tale.
9 min · read by Emily Christine 
Hansel and Gretel
Two children, a dark forest and a house made of bread and cake.
19 min · read by Kasey Miracle 
Rumpelstiltskin
Straw spun into gold, and a name that has to be guessed.
8 min · read by Anthony Pica 
Narrated by Susie Hackel
Ashputtel's mother dies, and her father marries a woman with two daughters who are fair of face but cruel of heart. They make Ashputtel sleep by the hearth. When the king...
Narrated by Joanna Agee
A king and queen long for a child. When their daughter is born, they hold a great feast and invite the wise women of the land. But there are thirteen wise women and only...
Narrated by Susie Hackel
A cat and a mouse decide to share a home. They buy a pot of fat for the winter and hide it in the church for safekeeping. But the cat grows hungry. Again and again she te...
Narrated by Derrick Kirkham
A princess in a cloak of furs hides as Cat‑Skin, dazzles a king at three balls, and finds her destiny in this timeless Grimm tale—richly narrated by Derrick Kirkham.
Narrated by Tony J Martin
A forester finds a baby in a tree and takes it home. He raises the boy, Fundevogel (Foundling-bird), together with his own daughter Lina. The two are devoted to each othe...
Narrated by Paul Landergan
Chanticleer the rooster and Partlet the hen set out in a carriage drawn by six mice. They meet a cat, a millstone, an egg, a duck and a pin, and all go together to visit...
Narrated by Eric Leeb
Hans has served his master faithfully for seven years, and his pay is a lump of gold as big as his head. He sets off for home with it on his shoulder. Then he meets a man...
Narrated by Kasey Miracle
Step into the deep, dark woods with this timeless Brothers Grimm classic. When a famine drives a desperate woodcutter to abandon his children, Hansel and Gretel must outw...
Narrated by Etombè Edembe
Two brave siblings outwit a witch in the Grimm classic. Etombè Edembe’s engaging performance blends heart, suspense, and wonder—perfect for family listening, bedtime, cla...
Narrated by Joanna Agee
Jorinda and Jorindel are about to be married. They wander into the forest, and Jorinda is caught by an old witch and turned into a nightingale. Jorindel is frozen in plac...
Narrated by Kyle Snyder
A little girl in a red velvet cap sets out through the forest to take cake and wine to her sick grandmother. Her mother warns her to stay on the path. On the way she meet...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
A widow has two daughters: one is her own, lazy and ugly, and the other is a hard-working stepdaughter. When the girl drops her spindle into a well, she follows it down a...
Narrated by Myriam Berger
Old Sultan, the shepherd's dog, has lost all his teeth. The shepherd says he will shoot him in the morning, because he is no use any more. Sultan goes to his friend the w...
Narrated by Emily Christine
Locked away in a tower with no door and no stairs, Rapunzel lets down her long golden hair whenever the enchantress calls. Then one day a prince hears her singing. The Br...
Narrated by Anthony Pica
A miller boasts to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king locks her in a room full of straw and orders it done by morning. A strange little man app...
Narrated by Jynelle Brown
A king and queen finally have a daughter and invite the fairies to her christening. One fairy is left out. Her angry curse says the princess will prick her finger on a sp...
Narrated by Erica Holden
Two sisters, Snow White and Rose Red, live with their widowed mother in a little cottage. One winter night, a bear knocks at the door. The family lets him in and he becom...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
A queen wishes for a child as white as snow, with lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. She gets her wish, but the girl's beauty makes her stepmother jealous....
Narrated by Susie Hackel
A shepherd's dog runs away from his cruel master. He is hungry and tired. A kind-hearted sparrow takes pity on him, and promises to find him something to eat. That is the...
Narrated by Erica Holden
A poor fisherman catches a talking flounder, who is really an enchanted prince, and lets him go. When he tells his wife, she says he should have asked for a wish. She sen...
Narrated by Shaun Michael Gray
A princess drops her golden ball into a deep well and cries. A frog offers to bring it back in return for her friendship. She promises quickly and forgets just as quickly...
Narrated by Anthony Pica
A king's golden apples are being stolen one by one, and his sons take turns watching the tree. The youngest meets a talking fox and is told how to find the golden bird, a...
Narrated by T.E. Gabbidon
A princess is traveling to a far kingdom to be married when her maid takes her place. The true princess is sent to tend geese. Her talking horse, Falada, is killed, but h...
Narrated by Myriam Berger
A mouse, a bird and a sausage live together in a little house and divide the work. The bird fetches wood, the mouse brings water and sets the table, and the sausage cooks...
Narrated by Jason Michael Mann
A queen who has no children prays in her garden every morning. An angel tells her that she will have a son who can have anything he wishes for. But the old cook knows abo...
Narrated by Aaron Sokalski
A mother's careless word turns her daughter into a raven. The girl flies away to a golden castle in the forest. Years later a soldier finds a way to reach her, and the re...
Narrated by Tania Mannion
A miller's daughter is promised to a rich suitor who seems perfect, except that she knows nothing about him. When he invites her to his house deep in the forest, she foll...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
A straw, a coal and a bean are neighbors who escape a cooking pot together and set off to see the world. Then they come to a brook, and nobody knows how to get across. Th...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
Four old animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, are each about to be put out by their masters. They set off together for Bremen, where they plan to become town mu...
Narrated by Lauren Voss
Twelve princesses sleep in a room with locked doors, yet every morning their dancing shoes are worn through. The king offers his kingdom to any man who can find out where...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A poor man catches a golden fish, and in return for sparing it, he gets twin boys, a pair of golden horses and a pair of golden dogs. When the boys grow up, they go out i...
Narrated by Christopher Mireider
A small tailor kills seven flies with one blow and stitches the words SEVEN AT ONE BLOW on his belt. Then he sets off to see the world. People who read the belt think he...
Narrated by Emilynn ler Derna
The birds hold a contest to decide who will be king. The one who flies highest wins. The eagle thinks he has it. But the tiny willow-wren hides in his feathers. A Grimm f...
Narrated by Chikondi Chanthunya
A classic Grimm tale of a crafty wolf, a courageous mother goat, and seven kids—told with heart by Chikondi Chanthunya. Gentle suspense, a joyful rescue, and a cheer-wort...
Jacob Grimm is born in Hanau.
Wilhelm Grimm is born a year later.
The first volume of Children's and Household Tales is published.
The brothers begin their German dictionary.
The last edition in their lifetimes, with about 200 tales.
Wilhelm dies in Berlin.
Jacob dies in Berlin.
No. They collected them from storytellers and older sources, then edited and retold them over many editions.
About 200 in the final 1857 edition of Children's and Household Tales.
Rapunzel is our most-played. Hansel and Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin are both short and great for all ages.
Yes. The tales are long out of copyright, and each Academy Voices recording is a new performance by a real narrator.
Academy Voices has 33 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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