Gerit grimm biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders...
The Brothers Grimm
Find out about the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales!
Once upon a time, over two hundred years ago, there were two German brothers called Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
Gerit grimm biography for kids
The brothers worked as lawyers and librarians, and later on became university professors. In their free time, they had a really interesting hobby – collecting fairy tales!
In those days, there was no television, radio or internet, so people gathered together in the evenings to hear storytellers tell tales like Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel.
The brothers liked nothing more than travelling all around Europe and listening to local storytellers tell their fairy tales.
Then, they wrote them down in a big book for everyone to enjoy.
This book was published in – that’s over two hundred years ago!
What is your favourite Grimm fairy tale?
Have you ever heard of Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood)?
I’m the Big Bad Wolf, the baddie in the story!
A lot of the fairy tales collected by the b