Bilingual Bedtime.
Brothers Grimm · Thirteen Fairy Tales in Spanish and English
Thirteen classic Grimm fairy tales told twice on every spread: José Sánchez Biedma's classic Spanish on the left page, clear modern English on the right, with a small gloss under every word so a family can read the same story aloud in both languages.
352 pages · Paperback & Kindle · Ages 4 to 8
the opening of “La Cenicienta” (Cinderella)
Thirteen tales, in order.
The Brothers Grimm in one big storybook, the great classics first and the shorter treasures placed so there is always a one-more-story ending to hand.
Open the book anywhere and you find the same moment of a fairy tale twice. The left page carries authentic Spanish: José Sánchez Biedma's translation of 1879, the first great Spanish Grimm, with its spelling and dialogue marks lightly modernised and the storytelling left his own. The right page carries a clear modern English telling of that very same passage. The two pages move paragraph by paragraph in step, with small matching numbers, so you can read one aloud, cross the spread, and find exactly the same moment in the other language.
Beneath every word sits a tiny helper. On the Spanish page each Spanish word carries a small English gloss; on the English page each English word carries a small Spanish gloss. Wherever the two texts share a word, the gloss deliberately reuses the vocabulary from the facing page, so both pages teach one set of words rather than two.
The thirteen tales are the ones a family already knows: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, the Frog King, the Bremen Town Musicians, Tom Thumb and the Brave Little Tailor, alongside the shorter treasures that make a perfect one more story before lights out. Every tale opens with its own watercolour frontispiece and closes with a full-page painting, twenty-six in all, created for this edition.
- 01La CenicientaCinderella
- 02RuiponcheRapunzel
- 03Rosa-con-espinasSleeping Beauty
- 04El Rey de las RanasThe Frog King
- 05Los Músicos de BremaThe Bremen Town Musicians
- 06Tom PouceTom Thumb
- 07El Sastrecillo ValerosoThe Brave Little Tailor
- 08Juan en la ProsperidadHans in Luck
- 09La Liebre y el ErizoThe Hare and the Hedgehog
- 10El Pescador y su MujerThe Fisherman and His Wife
- 11Blancanieve y RojarosaSnow-White and Rose-Red
- 12El Dinero Llovido del CieloThe Star Money
- 13La Reina de las AbejasThe Queen Bee
Why this edition.
The same moment, on both pages
Spanish left, English right, matched paragraph by paragraph with small numbers. Read a line aloud, cross the spread, and hear the same line again. Children love hearing the story twice, and that repetition is how a language settles in.
One vocabulary, taught twice
Where the two texts share a word, the glosses reuse the same vocabulary on both sides. The Spanish words a child meets on the left are the very words printed under the English on the right.
Classic Spanish, read to children for over a century
The Spanish pages carry José Sánchez Biedma's 1879 translation, the first great Spanish Grimm. The spelling and the dialogue marks have been lightly modernised. The storytelling is his own, and the English telling on the facing page follows it faithfully.
Painted for this edition
Twenty-six original watercolours: every tale opens with its own frontispiece and closes with a full-page painting. The Spanish is set in its own typeface, so a child can see at a glance which world each page belongs to.
Made for real families
A short, friendly guide for grown-ups explains how to read a mirror book together. No drills, no exercises, no perfect accent required: point at the words, do the voices, guess together. One tale at bedtime is plenty. There are thirteen.
the opening paragraph of “La Cenicienta”, as it appears on the Spanish page
The details.
- Series
- Bilingual Bedtime
- Language pair
- Spanish and English, on facing pages
- Format
- Paperback & Kindle
- Print length
- 352 pages
- Trim size
- 8 × 10 in
- Source text
- José Sánchez Biedma's 1879 Spanish (Madrid), lightly modernised
- Illustrations
- 26 original watercolours
- Kindle edition
- Reflowable: the Spanish tales, then the English, glosses as ruby text
- Level
- Ages 4 to 8
- Published
- September 2026
- ASIN
- B0HJ2YJFKC
More in Spanish.
Every edition is glossed by hand, word by word, and printed on demand by Amazon.
Read the same fairy tale twice at bedtime, once in Spanish, once in English.
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