The Three Spinning Women

Written by The Brothers Grimm

Narrated by Phil Chenevert

A beautiful but very lazy girl refuses to spin and when her mother punishes her, the queen happens to hears the young girl cry. Her mother lies to the queen, saying the girl is obsessed with spinning and that she won't do anything else! The queen is delighted to hear this as she loves spinning. She takes the girl to her palace and leaves her in a room stuffed with flax. All she has to do is spin it all, and she can marry the prince! But three strange helpers appear when she hasn't spun a bit...will they help or hurt her with the chore? A classic Brothers Grimm story. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fairytalez
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021

The Brothers Grimm

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born during the 1780s in Hanau, Germany, and studied law at Marburg university. After leaving education, they worked as diplomats and librarians in Kassel. In 1837 they were dismissed from their professorships at the University of Göttingen for refusing to swear allegiance to the new King of Hanover, but were later invited to join the Academy in Berlin, by Frederick William IV of Prussia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Individually, and as a collaborative team, the brothers were two of the greatest scholars that Germany has produced. Aside from their folktales, they produced many different volumes of research, as well as anthologies of verse and song, and two of Germany's most important linguistic texts, the Deutsche Grammatik (German grammar) and the Deutsche Wörterbuch (German dictionary). Wilhelm died in 1859, at the age of 73, and Jacob died in 1863, at the age of 78.