Description: Four aging animals--a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster--set out to seek their fortunes as musicians in Bremen, but along the way they stumble into a fateful encounter with a gang of robbers.
Brief description: The brothers Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) Grimm are considered the founders of German linguistics and literary studies. They collected fairy tales that had been passed down orally and published them between 1812 and 1815 under the title Children's and Household Tales. The Grimm fairy tale collection has been part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2005.
Review Quotes: "Watts's soft, more traditional illustrations... are appealingly pretty (in the best sense), representing the animals with sympathy, their defeat of the robbers with some humor, and the setting with a pleasant nostalgia."-- "Kirkus Reviews"