Legends & Fairy Tales
Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children
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Arthur Bowie Chrisman
This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the most disting…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 18
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Wishing Horse of Oz (Version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…
The Enchanted Forest
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William Bowen
If you have listened to (or read) Solario the Tailor on Librivox you know that collection of stories is the second a two volume set of remar…
The Dried-up Fountain
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Robert Leighton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Decembe…
Little Miss Joy-Sing
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John Luther Long
A pleasant kind of fantasy set in Japan concerning a woman and a prince. - Summary by KevinS
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bo…
Christmas Tales Of Flanders
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Andre De Ridder
“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…
Black Tales for White Children
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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
Libussa
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Johann Karl August Musäus
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation…
Uncle Wiggily's Airship: Bedtime Stories
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Howard R. Garis
"Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit, sat in his burrow-house reading the morning paper. It was after breakfast, on a nice…
The Lance of Kanana: A Story of Arabia
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Harry W. French
A gripping, coming-of-age tale with youthful heroism, wisdom and fortitude on the Arabian Peninsula, somewhat in the style of One Thousand A…
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
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William Charles Griggs
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 th…
Stories from "The Rainbow Book"
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Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great de…
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
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Alphonso Orenzo Stafford
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…
Doctor Rabbit and Tom Wildcat
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Thomas Clark Hinkle
All Doctor Rabbit and his friends want is peace in the Big Green Woods. But peace alludes them as long as Tom Wildcat is around because T. W…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 14 (Supplem…
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Richard Francis Burton
In this volume Shahrazad relates several Arabic folk tales to her sister and is one of the many translated by Richard F. Burton. These tales…
The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda
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Rosetta Baskerville
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are s…
Tales of Giants From Brazil
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Elsie Spicer Eells
Brazil is the land of the giant among all the rivers of the world. It is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the lan…
The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale
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Ford Madox Ford
In this delightful tale, the naive and sheltered Queen Eldrida learns the secret of flight from her friend the bat and sets off by air for a…