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The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fancy - Mabel Henrietta Spielmann

Author: Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy is a book of children's stories from British author Mabel Henrietta Spielmann. Some are well known like "The Sleeping Beauty", and some were invented for the book and are a product of their time. Some tell...

Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children - Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Author: Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the most distinguished contribution to American Children’s literature during the year 1925. it is a collection of stories...

More Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs

Author: Joseph Jacobs
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

More fairy tales from the early days of the British Isles, collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. - Summary by bookworm360...

Prince Silverwings and Other Fairy Tales - Edith Ogden Harrison

Author: Edith Ogden Harrison
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Edith Ogden Harrison's first published work, Prince Silverwings, is a collection of seven fairy tales for young readers. It is perhaps best known as the source of an unsuccessful stage collaboration with L. Frank Baum, ultimately providing...

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 04 - Anonymous

Author: Anonymous
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The fourth and final volume of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her - and therefore her life - by telling her tales in installments. - Summary by Gillian Hendrie...

The Myths and Fables of To-day - Samuel Adams Drake

Author: Samuel Adams Drake
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Samuel Adams was born in 1833, began journalism in 1858, served in the Army for 10 years & returned home to continue with his journalism. Journalism must have been his passion as he did write many books with this one being one of his last. ‘The...

The Lost King of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

"Princess Ozma has ruled so wisely and happily in the wonderful Land of Oz for so long that most of us have forgotten the strange story of the Lost King of Oz—Ozma's father. As everyone in Oz knows, the King was transformed from his royal self by...

Fairy Tales from Brazil (Version 2) - Elsie Spicer EELLS

Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

A collection of short, sweet fairy tales from Brazil, including How the Tiger Got His Stripes, and Why The Bananas Belong to the Monkey. - Summary by Beth Thomas...

Legends of Saints and Sinners - Douglas Hyde

Author: Douglas Hyde
Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book of Irish Christian folk-lore. My idea in compiling it has been to give for the first time a collection of genuine Irish...

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 2: The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA

Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their...

Captain Salt in Oz (Version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds? Have we been pursued by a real...

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 13 - Various

Author: Various
Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...

The Hollow Tree Snowed In Book - Albert Bigelow Paine

Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Once upon a time, in the Big Deep Woods, there was a big hollow tree with three hollow branches. The tree animals living in each of these hollow branches have many stories and they are told by the Story Teller to the Little Lady. Lots of good fun...

Legends of Norseland - Mara L. Pratt

Author: Mara L. Pratt
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas / Short Stories

Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok. (Summary by Ryan Williams)...

Sylvie and Bruno (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll

Author: Lewis Carroll
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main...

What Happened Then Stories - Ruth O. Dyer

Author: Ruth O. Dyer
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Have you ever wondered what happens after the story ended? Ruth O. Dyer answers that question using some of the best loved children stories. Children and adults alike will have their curiosity satisfied by discovering just what happened after the...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2) - The Gawain Poet

Author: The Gawain Poet
Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Christian Fiction

This poem celebrates Christmas by exploring the mystery of Christ's mission on earth: his death, resurrection, and second coming as judge of all human souls. Sir Gawain is cast in the role of Everyman. At the feast of the New Year, an unarmed green...

The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan - Edwin P. Norwood

Author: Edwin P. Norwood
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General

Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a clown because he perhaps is a clown but a very special clown who invites the Pretty Lady with the Blue Blue Eyes (a very...

Phantasmion - Sara Coleridge

Author: Sara Coleridge
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

In 1837 came Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale, Sara Coleridge's longest original work, described by critic Mike Ashley as "the first fairytale novel written in English". Historian of literature Dennis Butts describes Phantasmion as a "remarkable pioneering...

The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome - Various

Author: Various
Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age....

The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

Author: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

During an expedition in the Canary Islands, an archeologist discovers a cave containing tablets with unknown writing. When translated, they tell the tale of decline and fall of Atlantis, which for centuries had been the center of the world. The...

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 03 - Various

Author: Various
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Grampa In Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Another great book in the world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful old soldier Grampa, sets off to find the king's head, a fortune, and a princess. With Bill, a...

Stories from "The Rainbow Book" - Mabel Henrietta Spielmann

Author: Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great deal of fun and fancy indeed. I have chosen 15 of these imaginative and delightful stories for us to record in this...

The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red...

Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology - Mary H. Foster</a> and <a href="https://librivox.o

Author: Mary H. Foster and Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is the outcome of several years experience in telling to classes of children the classic myths, both southern and...

The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others - Beatrix Potter

Author: Beatrix Potter
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he should not go and gets into a scary situation is just one of her nifty tales. This is storytelling at its best:...

The Hunting of the Snark (version 4) - Lewis Carroll

Author: Lewis Carroll
Genre: Poetry / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, which may turn out to be a highly dangerous...

Merrimeg - William Bowen

Author: William Bowen
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

This is a charming fairy story by renowned author William Bowen. Merrimeg is a kind, helpful and obedient little girl. But after finishing her chores, as she goes outside to play, imps intervene and sweep her up the chimney. What is to become of...

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12 - Various

Author: Various
Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Anthologies

Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The wonderful but quirky Wizard of Oz has invented a plane to go strato-sphering. Zooming among the clouds and shooting stars above OZ certainly produces a host of strange adventures. This last book about OZ by Ruth Thompson includes many well known...

Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country - William Charles Griggs

Author: William Charles Griggs
Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The following stories have been taken from the great[v] mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children. The...

The Laughing Bear and Other Stories - Robert Bloomer Hare Bell

Author: Robert Bloomer Hare Bell
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

A collection of unique stories for listeners with the wisdom to see a bit beyond the printed words. The stories start in Korea with The Laughing Bear (or MOUWOU The Deliverer.as he is also called in Korea) and move through the world of a not nice...

Soap Bubble Stories - Fanny Barry

Author: Fanny Barry
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Have you ever watched a soap bubble drifting up on the air, sparkling and lovely? These lovely stories for children are of many lengths and varied styles but all beautifully crafted, just like the soap bubbles we blow and enjoy watching our children...

Jātaka Tales - H. T. Francis

Author: H. T. Francis
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s fables, some strikingly similar, they urge the listener to moral behavior and often, more than that, point a...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 - Anonymous

Author: Anonymous
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...

Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse - David Cory

Author: David Cory
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss in Boots seems to go back to Italian folklore. These books are written for younger readers, about second grade...

Another Brownie Book - Palmer Cox

Author: Palmer Cox
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry

Brownies, like fairies and goblins, are imaginary little sprites, who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. They work and sport while weary households sleep, and never allow themselves to be seen by mortal eyes. Summary by...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 12 - Anonymous

Author: Anonymous
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

The Rainbow Cat - Rose Fyleman

Author: Rose Fyleman
Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales

THERE was once a cat which was not in the least like any cat you have ever seen, or I either, for the matter of that. It was a fairy cat, you see, and so you would rather expect it to be different, wouldn’t you? It had a violet nose, indigo eyes,...