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The Dog and the Sparrow

By: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Narrated by: Susie Hackel
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The Dog and the Sparrow is a classic Grimm fairy tale that begins with kindness and ends with consequence.

When a hungry, mistreated dog flees his careless master, he meets a small sparrow whose cleverness and loyalty change his fate—if only for a moment. The sparrow guides the weary dog through town, stealing scraps of food to ease his hunger and offering companionship where none had been shown before. But when cruelty intervenes, the story turns.

What follows is a darkly playful chain of events in which the smallest creature proves the most relentless, and injustice is answered not with mercy, but with reckoning. Told with the deceptively gentle tone of a children’s story, this tale reveals the Grimm brothers’ unmistakable moral vision: that cruelty echoes, cleverness has teeth, and even the powerless may demand balance.

Narrated by Susie Hackel, this timeless fable blends whimsy and menace, inviting listeners into a story that looks simple—until it isn’t.

Public Domain (P)2025 Anthony Pica Productions, LLC
Classics Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Literature & Fiction
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