"Hansel and Gretel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunzel" and "Snow White" are among the jewels we owe to the brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the nineteenth century to seek out and listen to village storytellers in their native Germany. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvellous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children"s illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham.