Myths
Kottō
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Lafcadio Hearn
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
Read by Ginny Blankenship
Alfred John Church
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. T…
Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a secon…
Hero and Leander
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Christopher Marlowe
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyran…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
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Hans Christian Andersen
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…
The Princess and Curdie
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his …
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
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Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
The Fairy Book
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The sleeping beauty in the wood -- Hop-O'-My-Thumb -- Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper -- Adventures of John Dietrich -- Beauty and …
Household Tales
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, R…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
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Songling Pu
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supe…
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
Read by David Wales
James W. Schultz
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
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L. Frank Baum
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny,…
Children's Short Works
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Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Myths That Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
Kabumpo in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then …
The Islands of Magic
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Elsie Spicer Eells
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…
The Emperor's New Clothes
Read by Phil Chenevert
Hans Christian Andersen
This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an …
Under the Sunset
Read by Sandra Cullum
Bram Stoker
“Under the Sunset” is a collection of eight amazing fantasy tales from the mind and imagination of the legendary Bram Stoker (Dracula.) Orig…
Romances of Old Japan
Read by mlcui
Yei Theodora Ozaki
A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and rom…
Five Children and It
Read by James Pyle
E. Nesbit
When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then, Sand-Fairy) in a…