Jack Zipes is the editor and translator of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and the editor of The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Natalie Frank is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Her work is held in multiple museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
"""[A]n eclectic collection ... spanning millennia and continents.""--Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald ""[A] comprehensive anthology... [A]lso of note are artist Frank's gorgeous illustrations.""--Library Journal ""It is not often that a new book comes along that is both a breakthrough in scholarly terms and also a magnificent work of art. Jack Zipes's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, illustrated by Natalie Frank, is both.""--Maria Tatar, Breezes from Wonderland"