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On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
- Author: Clara Doty BATES
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. - Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman....
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
- Author: Sarah FIELDING
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / School
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a significant work of 18th-century children's literature. (Wikipedia) It's about a boarding school for girls and...
New Adventures of Alice - John RAE
New Adventures of Alice - John RAE
- Author: John RAE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to...
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends - Gertrude LANDA
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends - Gertrude LANDA
- Author: Gertrude LANDA
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general fairy-lore and childish romance." from the preface. These tales deal with the boyish exploits of the great...
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so he will be able to stand proudly with his ancestors. - Summary by Fritz...
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan - Richard Gordon SMITH
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan - Richard Gordon SMITH
- Author: Richard Gordon SMITH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes even more interesting when you dive into folklore of places away from your own culture. This volume is a...
King Arthur - Joseph Comyns CARR
King Arthur - Joseph Comyns CARR
- Author: Joseph Comyns CARR
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Tragedy
A retelling of the classic legend of King Arthur, Guinevere & Sir Lancelot. (Summary by Amanda Friday) Cast King Arthur: Algy Pug Sir Lancelot: Max Korlinge Sir Mordred: Ric F Sir Kay: Drakaunus Sir Gawaine: Alan Mapstone Sir Bedevere: Grace...
Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2) - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2) - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction
Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings...
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
- Author: Alfred John Church
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse of Wood" and "The Love and Death of Dido," as well as many others perhaps less well-known, such as "King Evander"...
Fairy Tales from South Africa - Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
Fairy Tales from South Africa - Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
- Author: Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in South Africa. The authors, Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, or more properly the collectors and editors...
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imagination, character, and leave a strong moral when finished, she blends humor with short parables and rustic...
The Islands of Magic - Elsie Spicer EELLS
The Islands of Magic - Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are Flores, Corvo, Fayal, Pico, S. Jorge,...
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Tragedy
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Johann Wolfgang von...
Eskimo Folk-Tales - Knud RASMUSSEN
Eskimo Folk-Tales - Knud RASMUSSEN
- Author: Knud RASMUSSEN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Quote:"No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland he returned again and again, studying,...
The Knights of the Silver Shield - Raymond MacDonald ALDEN
The Knights of the Silver Shield - Raymond MacDonald ALDEN
- Author: Raymond MacDonald ALDEN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a volume of eleven beautiful and original little fairy tales. - Summary by Carolin...
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights - Uriel Waldo CUTLER
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights - Uriel Waldo CUTLER
- Author: Uriel Waldo CUTLER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Stories of King Arthur and His Knightsretold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" (Full title of book)...
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table - Howard Pyle
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Tristram, and Launcelot of the Lake. - Summary by Maggie Travers...
Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman - Annie Fellows Johnston
Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
We all know that Santa Claus has a large family in which to help him in the delivery of presents, peace, and good cheer. So what would you do if you were Miss Santa Claus and met two children on Christmas Eve traveling to a strange town to be...
Snowdrop and Other Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Snowdrop and Other Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). (Summary by Ann Boulais)...
A Book of Fairy Tales - Sabine Baring-Gould
A Book of Fairy Tales - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Beauty and the Beast, but also tales which are now not as widely known, such as the Yellow Dwarf and the White...
The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts - Abbie Farwell Brown
The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts - Abbie Farwell Brown
- Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Poems and Christian stories of the animal encounters of various saints. - Summary by Wikipedia...
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
- Author: Augusta STEVENSON
- Genre: Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Anderson, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by Augusta Stevenson. This collection has seventeen plays in which characters come together and form a classic...
Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2) - Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2) - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales -- including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen others. (Summary by Halle Kill)...
The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. -Wikipedia...
Glinda of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Glinda of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Glinda the Good, the great sorceress of Oz takes the spotlight in this, the very last OZ book written by L. Frank Baum himself. Ozma hears of previously unknown parts of her kingdom having difficulties and at war with each other and knows it is her...
The Old Old Fairy Tales - Laura VALENTINE
The Old Old Fairy Tales - Laura VALENTINE
- Author: Laura VALENTINE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may also find a farm girl cursed by becoming a queen, a prince blessed with having his every wish denied, a princess turned...
The Wonder Clock - Howard Pyle
The Wonder Clock - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his characters and plots, Pyle...
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Greece - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / Biography & Autobiography
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
Teddy Bears - Adah Louise Sutton
Teddy Bears - Adah Louise Sutton
- Author: Adah Louise Sutton
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Set in the early 1900's, this is a delightful story of a tribe of Teddy Bears arrival in the department store and the adventures some of them have when they are brought into a family's home. - Summary by Linda Andrus...
The Princess Pourquoi - Margaret P. SHERWOOD
The Princess Pourquoi - Margaret P. SHERWOOD
- Author: Margaret P. SHERWOOD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be alien to her own sex, and undesired by the other. She shall ask and it will not be given her. She shall achieve...
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
- Author: Willis George EMERSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants....
The Crimson Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Crimson Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian...
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table - Andrew Lang
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens… It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 6) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 6) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Folk Lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Anderson...
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk - Mary Grant BRUCE
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk - Mary Grant BRUCE
- Author: Mary Grant BRUCE
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people...
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2) - Jean de La FONTAINE
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2) - Jean de La FONTAINE
- Author: Jean de La FONTAINE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories which were originally written in French by Jean de la Fontaine, these quirky fables are sure to entertain...
Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies - K. Langloh PARKER
Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies - K. Langloh PARKER
- Author: K. Langloh PARKER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe,known among themselves as Noongahburrahs....
The Children's Wonder Book - Various
The Children's Wonder Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a wild mix of different children's stories by different authors. All lof the stories are original, and some of them use a well-known story and bring a novel and often humorous twist to it. Children of all ages and all different tastes should...
The Story of the Amulet (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Five Children (from Five Children and It) are once again on holidays, but this time with no sand fairy to grant wishes - or is there? In a pet shop they meet with their friend the Psammead again, and a whirlwind adventure follows through time...
