Grimm Tales

Never putting a foot wrong, the result is a magical complexity-in-simplicity that is sure to become a classic in its own right – Adam Lively * Sunday Times *Philip Pullman has radically reworked the Grimm tales for all ages – Nicolette Jones * Telegraph *One of Pullman’s most useful additions is the vastly improved poems and jingles…his freer versions are catchy and authentic * Guardian *I’ve admired Philip Pullman since his early fantasy Galatea on through the splendid trilogy His Dark Materials. All of his gifts, including his prose eloquence, and his endless high Romantic imagination, are manifested in this marvelous retelling of Grimm – Harold Bloom

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford. His first children’s book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time that prize had been given to a children’s book. Pullman has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List for Services to Literature.