The publication includes one hundred and two German folk tales presented by famous linguists and folklorists brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859). All tales are given in the translation of Grigory Nikolaevich Petnikov. At the end of the collection, the story "Children from Gammeln" contains an arrangement of the legend of the Pied Piper Prosper Merim translated from French by Anatoly Vinogradov. The publication is decorated with magnificent black and white and color drawings by the famous British artist Arthur Rackham, who is deservedly considered the outstanding master of the Golden Age of British book illustration.