Before we could convince our parents to buy us those awfully violent comic books, fairy tales dominated bed time reading. Thanks to the creative genius of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, children around the world have had classic stories to read and see turned into Disney cartoons. The Grimm Brothers wrote “Cinderella,” “Snow White”, and “Rapunzel” around the same time as Andersen wrote “The Little Mermaid,” “Emperor’s New Clothes,” and “The Princess and the Pea.” Think where we’d be if Disney didn’t have these guys to copy and not pay royalties to.