The present book of German and Norse folk and fairy tales is based on Rolf Brandt's two anthologies, Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm (1943) and Why the Sea Is Salt and Other Fairy Tales (1946), both published by Peter Lunn in London. Brandt changed many of the tales and created over 40 unusual illustrations that shed new light on the original tales. Brandt was a surrealist, and he used a pencil method to elaborate on the meanings...