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Thirty More Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythological figures in simple, easy-to-understand language appropriate for intermediate readers and listeners of...
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Tons of exciting things happen in...
Mother’s Nursery Tales - Katharine Pyle
Mother’s Nursery Tales - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths are as different as the body and...
Short Stories for Short People - Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
Short Stories for Short People - Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
- Author: Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Alicia Aspinwall. - Summary by Carolin...
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight - Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family / Religion
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when they meet their host and his family, consisting of a wife, son Aleck (who imagines himself the perfect...
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men into birds. Blossoms, fragrance,...
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
'The Sixth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of S, Calidore or of Cvrtesie.' Apart from Books 1-6, the only surviving section of the Faerie Queene is a short isolated fragment known as the Mutabilitie Cantos (traditionally numbered...
The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"In the House of Many Windows which stands in a large city and is sometimes called a "flat" by people who, because they are grown up, do not know any better, live the Little Lady and the Story Teller.The Little Lady is four years old, going on five,...
Stories of Enchantment - Jane Pentzer Myers
Stories of Enchantment - Jane Pentzer Myers
- Author: Jane Pentzer Myers
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Jane Pentzer Myers's only book was dedicated to Kate Winifred: 'Just between the 'Land o' dreams' and broad daylight is a beautiful world, where good wishes come true: where the poor and lonely are rich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful...
The Counterpane Fairy (version 2) - Katharine Pyle
The Counterpane Fairy (version 2) - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Teddy has been ill. Now, he is feeling better and is bored; and his exhausted mother needs to rest. He is befriended by the Counterpane Fairy, who entertains him with stories of which he is the hero. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
- Author: William Trowbridge Larned
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the...
The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit
The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary by...
Wet Magic - E. Nesbit
Wet Magic - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their...
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The Fovrth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser...
Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ Mothuighim boladh an...
Tales of Folk and Fairies - Katharine Pyle
Tales of Folk and Fairies - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
In "Tales of Folk and Fairies" Ms. Pyle tells 15 different children's stories from around the world; each more delightful than the last. Each story stands completely on it's own and although they were probably meant for children, adults will...
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India - W. H. D. Rouse
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India - W. H. D. Rouse
- Author: W. H. D. Rouse
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. The first collection is entitled The Giant Crab (Librivox audio here ). Parents or those in loco parentis should be aware that as in all folk literature, in addition to...
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of well known fairy tales by various authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and many others. (Summary by Elli)...
Twilight Land - Howard Pyle
Twilight Land - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Ali Baba, and Fortunatis, and Jack-the-Giant-Killer, and Doctor Faustus, and Bidpai, and Cinderella, and...
A Book of Myths - Jean Lang
A Book of Myths - Jean Lang
- Author: Jean Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang complemented each myth with poetry by other authors who, like her, were inspired by these ancient stories of the...
The Singing Mouse Stories - Emerson Hough
The Singing Mouse Stories - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the waters said or where the city went. (summary by Nadine)...
Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the preservation of the...
East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
- Author: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her...
Shasta Of The Wolves - Olaf Baker
Shasta Of The Wolves - Olaf Baker
- Author: Olaf Baker
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
She-wolf Nitka finds an abandoned Native American baby and raises him with her cubs. Shasta learns the wolf ways and meets his kin, where he learns his true history. Eventually he can walk with the wolves and his human kin, which leads to more...
Myths and Legends of Alaska - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of Alaska - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government ethnologists, she paints an overall picture of Alaskan history as told by its many tribes. From the Eskimo to...
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3) - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3) - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child.There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely...
Ivan the Fool - Leo Tolstoy
Ivan the Fool - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Written after Tolstoy suffered a spiritual crisis, Ivan the Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, simply, and generously. The story emphasizes the destructive aspects of materialism and militarism while...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
The Cowardly Lion of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Cowardly Lion of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Cowardly Lion, always fearful, has become even more afraid than usual and is convinced that he has lost the courage the Wizard of OZ gave him man years ago. To remedy this he decides to follow the dubious advice from the Scrapwork Girl, to 'find...
Stories from Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile
Stories from Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile
- Author: Giambattista Basile
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stories as the basis of modern fairy tales. Be warned however, that these stories are a lot more violent and...
The House of the Wolfings - William Morris
The House of the Wolfings - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people dominated his writings, the first...
Favorite Fairy Tales - Logan Marshall
Favorite Fairy Tales - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of the fairy tales that children love best, told in simple language and lavishly illustrated. They are written by various authors, a selection of the best and most popular fairy stories, culled from many sources and here...
Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously...
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of traditional English fairy tales. (description by Joy Chan)...
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and...
The Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End - William Morris
The Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a well that exudes water with...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales - Wilhelm Hauff
Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales - Wilhelm Hauff
- Author: Wilhelm Hauff
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph Stork found in this volume, are popular in German-speaking countries to this day. In this book of fairy tales, we...
The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: "the little sea lady") is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid...
