Essential Fairy Tales: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Errol Le Cain

The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (also "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 133). Did you know our Australian illustrator Anna Walker illustrated this classic fairy tale? See below for the cover. 

Ruth Sanderson

KY Craft

Jane Ray

Alison Jay

Rachel Isadora

Anna Walker

(You can see more fairy tales from this series with Australian illustrators here)

Dorothy Dunize

And you might look for this one - I saw it in a school library:

Here is the Kirkus review