As previously reported, Google was running a doodle for “Grimm's Fairy Tales” in parts of the world where Thursday came sooner than it does here in the U.S. Interestingly, now that the doodle has made its way to our neck ofThe Grimm Brothers doodle follows Little Red Riding Hood through 21 slides as she tries to visit her ailing grandmother. An encounter with the Big Bad Wolf puts Red Riding Hood – and her grandmother – in jeopardy, but a nearby lumberjack saves the day.The 200th anniversary on Thursday of the first publication of the Grimm brothers' Die Kinder und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), a collection of 86 stories that became worldwide classics, is triggering a year of feverish celebrations inthe glass slipper fails to fit them, they cut off parts of their feet. And if that's not enough, at Cinderella's wedding, what the Grimm brothers seem to view as karmic doves fall upon the stepsisters and peck their eyes out so they are blind forHead over to Google's homepage on Thursday and you'll enjoy a scrollable comic strip telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The doodle celebrates the 200th anniversary of "Grimm's Fairy Tales," a compendium of European folk tales first published
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