10 classic Grimm Brothers fairy tales each presented with one or two rough charcoal sketches. These are not the cute Walt Disney with fluffy bunny versions, but the truly evil stepmother and truly noble king version. Here kindness is rewarded with kindness and evil is rewarded with evil in THE END.

Includes: The Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin,  Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Shoemaker and the Elves, and Tom Thumb.

In SNOW WHITE, the envious stepmother eats what she thinks is Snow White’s lung and liver brought to her by the huntsman. And in the end, she (the queen / stepmother) is “forced to put on the red-hot shoes and dance until she dropped dead.”

In THE FROG PRINCE– Originally Named The Frog King, the princess’s father tells the princess she must keep her promise to the frog, “He who helped you in your trouble should not afterward be despised by you.” In her anger, “She threw him (the frog) with all her might against the wall. ‘Now will you be quiet, horrid frog.’ ”

In CINDERELLA, there are no glass slippers, pumpkin coach, fairy god-mother, or the clock striking midnight, but there is a white bird at her mother’s grave side who gives her the dresses and slippers for the ball. The stepmother in this tale advises her own daughters to cut off their toes  and trim their heels with a knife to get the slipper to fit, for once they are queen, they will have no need to walk.