It is hard to imagine American childhood without Walt Disney’s reworkings of Brothers Grimm ... German book is not by Goethe. It is the Grimms’ “Children’s and Household Tales.” ...
The most translated German book is not by Goethe ... an der Strasse, the Grimm children looked set for a comfortable country childhood. But life is no fairy tale. In 1796 Philipp died of pneumonia.