Iron Hans
A Grimms' Fairy Tale
(Illustrated by Matt Tavares)
Candlewick Press, 2007

Deep in a forsaken wood, a wild man keeps watch over a golden spring.

Iron Hans is nine feet tall, as brown as rust, with hair to his knees. He is cursed, a terror to all, until a prince finds the courage to befriend him. But when he betrays Iron Hans's trust, the prince must make his way in the world alone, penniless and unknown—except for, in the end, a little help from a certain forgiving wild man.

Stephen Mitchell's deft retelling and Matt Tavares's elegant illustrations gracefully unfold this Grimms' tale about pride and humility, wealth and poverty, and the importance of doing good—whether you are a servant or a prince, a wild man or a king.