title: Grimm's Fairy Tales
author: Brothers Grimm
description: &ldquo;From Jim Dale&rsquo;s fully voiced reading of &rsquo;Rumpelstiltskin&rsquo; to Kate Rudd&rsquo;s formal narration of &rsquo;Little Snow-White&rsquo; and Dion Graham&rsquo;s lightly accented rendition of &rsquo;The Twelve Huntsmen,&rsquo; these are stellar performances. A mixture of short and long tales provides a nice blend of listening experiences with whimsical musical interludes.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>AudioFile</i>&#160;Earphones Award Winner<br><br>"[There] remains something untameable about these enigmatic stories of cruel parents, brave tailors, cannibalistic witches, enchanted princes and princesses, and big bad wolves...Each tale gets a different narrator, chosen from the starry firmament of the audiobook world...[Roy] Dotrice delivers the only biblically themed tale in the bunch and sounds like the voice of the Lord himself."&mdash;<i>The New York Times<br><br></i>
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  FAIRY TALES
  by The Brothers Grimm
  PREPARER'S NOTE
  The text is based on translations from the Grimms' 
  Kinder und Hausmarchen by Edgar Taylor and Marian 
  Edwardes.
  
  THE GOLDEN BIRD
  2
  THE GOLDEN BIRD
  A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden 
  stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples 
  were always counted, and about the time when they 
  began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of 
  them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and 
  ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the 
  tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about 
  twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another 
  of the apples was missing. Then the second son was 
  ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and 
  in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third 
  son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first 
  would not let him, for fear some harm should come to 
  him: however, at last he consented, and the young man 
  laid himself under the